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Feb. 14, 2022 - Viva & Barnes

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Feb. 14. Live in Ottawa - Freedom Convoy Special Interview

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	Must be 420.
	Viva, where are you?
	I have not been detained by government officials, so we're starting today in a hotel room because we're starting today with an interview of one of the representatives of the The Freedom Convoy 2022.
	Ben Dictor.
	And we're in a hotel room, so it's warm.
	I may not have to scream.
	Let me know if the audio is good.
	The hair today is absolutely out of control.
	When I sleep now, I don't like the hair tickling my neck.
	So I push it up like this, and then I end up sleeping with it, and it gets totally straight, so the back looks wild.
	Okay, while everyone trickles in, share the link.
	It's on Rumble.
	As well as YouTube.
	I'm going to go live, and it's going to go dark after this interview.
	I'm going to take myself out of the stream while I get in the elevator and go back down to walk the streets after this.
	So this is not going to be three and a half hours indoors.
	It's just going to be...
	I don't know.
	How much time do we have?
	30 minutes?
	As long as you want.
	Okay.
	I've got some questions.
	I know that the interwebs have questions as well.
	A lot of people are asking a lot of the same questions and a lot of the outlets are still repeating a lot of what I believe to be and what I understand to be misinformation, to put it politely, demonizing lies, to put it honestly.
	One of which is the Convoy's stated objective is to overthrow the government.
	I want to get to the heart of that statement or misunderstanding.
	Other questions?
	Who is the representative?
	How did they become the representative of this convoy?
	Is there one unified voice, one unified representative of this group?
	Other questions?
	Addressing some of the misinformation, some of the rumors out there as to what's going on with the money in the Give, Send, Go account and whether or not it's going to be pilfered, misappropriated by selfish actors who are seeing green because money corrupts.
	We know that.
	The only thing that prevents corruption is the disinfecting effects of sunlight.
	So with that said, let's just see, are we smooth?
	The lighting is actually quite good.
	I think I've been getting, at the very least, some sun from these.
	This is now day 10. Live streaming, documenting what is going on in Ottawa.
	And my first time catching it live, beautiful.
	I'm still flabbergasted by the lies and the misrepresentations going on on Twitter.
	I'm going to go into a rant about this when I go back outside, because I called a doctor out on it on Twitter this morning.
	Autoblock.
	I mean, it's just like, I can predict it every time.
	They make an outlandish statement that this is a white supremacist group of individuals who want to overthrow the government.
	They get called out because I tweeted out a bunch of videos showing the white supremacists.
	One of them came from Kuwait.
	One of them was born in Haiti.
	One of them was indigenous.
	Some of the white supremacists were breaking up snow and shoveling the walkways.
	So, you know, I call them out, then I get blocked.
	Okay.
	Moses DeFaro let the mandates go.
	Okay, so with that said, people, we're going to do this.
	And if you come in late, backtrack, and you'll see the interview.
	I'm here with Ben Dichter.
	Never met him before.
	This is my first time.
	It feels like we're in a clandestine meeting, but we're just in a hotel room because Ben's mobility seems to be limited.
	I'm going to turn the camera around.
	I'm going to ask some questions.
	You're going to see Ben sitting in a chair.
	I'm going to hold the light so you can hear my voice.
	Ben, I guess first question before we get to what happened to your foot.
	Who are you and what are you doing here?
	Okay, so my week started when I had to go back to Toronto and then come back quickly.
	So I decided to park my car into a tree on the 416 and ride it off on my way to doing the Crowder spot.
	I did it from Tim Hortons, you know, a half hour later.
	And the next night, I was running from one command center to the other command center because we're spread up in different hotels.
	And I guess the mayor headed out for me and didn't salt the sidewalks.
	And I did a pirouette on the ice.
	But instead of rolling my ankle, I snapped it forward and back and broke both my ankle bones.
	And I just had surgery a couple of days ago.
	Okay, that does look painful.
	I want to make sure that the audio is good.
	If you cannot hear in the audio, let me know.
	But I think...
	We're not going to have more ideal settings than this.
	Okay, so that is what happened to your ankle.
	And you look like you have pretty thick bones.
	So I would have to say that that's a good fall because ordinarily I wouldn't think your bones would be that brittle.
	Did you just call me fat?
	No, no, no.
	I'm looking at the wrist.
	I'm looking at the wrist.
	First of all, we're built roughly the same.
	So I can tell that I've got what my father said were thick Polish bones.
	Okay, now that's what happened to you.
	Who are you?
	And we've got to get into the convoy and how you...
	How you got to the position that you're in right now as relates to this massive movement.
	So who are you?
	Okay, so I am a spokesperson for the convoy.
	I'll explain how that happened.
	I also do own a truck.
	I'm what's called an owner-operator.
	So I own a vehicle and I do cross-border driving as well as a few other projects that I'm involved in.
	And I've known Tamara for several years.
	And when they started the convoy, this idea, which was just out of desperation, they just thought, we have to do something.
	Nothing is changing.
	Let's just do a convoy to Ottawa.
	They had done one a couple of years prior but it ended up getting politicized.
	The parties got involved and of course that kind of dwindled their momentum.
	But they had the idea of how to put one together.
	They had teams that could do the logistics and they said let's just do this one and we're not coming back until the mandates and the passports are lifted.
	So they decided, okay, let's do a GoFundMe.
	We'll get a little bit of money.
	Maybe we can raise 10 or 20 grand.
	And we'll have a few cars going there, a few trucks going there.
	And we'll make a statement.
	And Tamara called me, I think it was the next day.
	And she said, look, we decided to do this convoy.
	We did a GoFundMe.
	And we have, I think she said about $150,000 in the bank at that point.
	And she said, it's exploding.
	Can you help?
	You want to come on board?
	Help with messaging?
	All that sort of stuff.
	And I said it would be my pleasure.
	So that's how I got involved.
	Alright, so you operate something of a logistics company before this?
	No, no.
	I'm what's called a single owner-operator.
	I own a truck.
	So I have a contract with the company.
	People in trucking will know what an owner-operator is.
	And so basically, when I want to go on a trip or go to town or I have days to work, I just get a load from my...
	My carrier.
	And they'll send me to, either I can tell them, request to go to certain places, or they just send me a load.
	I go to the United States.
	Okay, so you've been in, then, the trucking business for a while?
	A little, not too long.
	I actually bought my truck because of COVID.
	I got sick and tired of being locked at home.
	What I also do is produce podcasts.
	And I just got sick and tired of being locked at home.
	My brother...
	Bought a truck because he bought one for retirement.
	And he said to me, listen, if you're sick of being at home, I got a license several years ago.
	He said, why don't you just buy a truck and let's go together and we'll do tandem runs to the U.S. And whenever you want to get away from Canada and the lockdowns, you can do it in the truck.
	So it's actually COVID that pushed me to buying a truck just to get away from this nonsense.
	So the whole period during lockdowns, it's been crazy to see.
	The difference between the United States and Canada, and other drivers will know what I'm talking about, you cross the border into the United States, it's been total freedom the entire time, even in states like New York and New Jersey where they had what we would perceive as hard lockdowns.
	But Americans just kind of thumb their nose at the government and they ignore it.
	But once we cross the border back into Canada, it's like a dystopian nightmare.
	It's been quite creepy and it's been like that for two years.
	And how did you meet Tamara again?
	I met her a few years ago when myself and one of my podcasters, Tom Quiggin, went on a speaking tour throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan because he has a lot of fans of his work.
	Listen to the Quiggin Report podcast, by the way.
	You'll know what I'm talking about.
	Tom is the real-life Jack Ryan from the movies.
	He was a seeking operator, then became an intelligence analyst.
	And that's how we met Tamara and this whole crew.
	From Medicine Hat, Alberta, and some people from Lloyd Minster, and we went to Saskatoon.
	We had friends all over Western Canada, and that was a result.
	Okay, and so Tamara starts this movement, opens up a GoFundMe at the time, gets to $150,000, and then says, we need representation, we need logistics, what are they coming to you?
	She called basically everybody she knows who has different skill sets.
	Reached out to people she knows in trucking for road captains.
	She reached out to other volunteers that are good at setting up kind of the back end.
	That's Cindy and the group that are still in Alberta.
	And for me, she reached out to help with messaging and outreach and stuff.
	All right, Ashley, so now that we're on that subject, explain the different parts of this machine now that the convoy has become, because it's huge.
	How many truckers?
	Let's get clear on some numbers, actually.
	How many truckers are involved in it?
	Like actual drivers?
	What are the various components to this machine?
	How does it communicate and how does it coordinate?
	That's been a big part of our challenge.
	Like with a lot of grassroots movements, they fail when you start your movement and then at some point you have to centralize, right?
	And that's usually when things collapse.
	And that was our biggest struggle for the past two weeks because they did enough work to get us here.
	So the convoy arrived.
	We had a command center set up, but so much of, you know, the systems and processes that they had could not handle the volume of trucks that came on board.
	Like, again, we assumed it would be kind of a small convoy, maybe 100 trucks or 50 trucks or whatever.
	We didn't anticipate the thousands of trucks, so we still don't know how many they are.
	Because remember, a lot of people, and I want to clarify this point as well.
	A lot of people in the fake news media, I like to call them, or on Twitter, they say, well, there's only a few trucks, there's a bunch of pickup trucks.
	They don't understand that when you have a commercial vehicle, depending on the agreement you have as an owner-operator with your insurance, some guys can take their trucks wherever they want, some people can't.
	So what do they do?
	Instead of taking their commercial truck, they hop in their pickup truck and drive.
	But those people are still truckers, right?
	And when they come in their regular truck, they're coming with their family and their kids and all that sort of stuff.
	That makes sense.
	Yeah, Melissa, in terms of determining the number then, is there a registration?
	Do people send their emails?
	Do you have an email list?
	Like, number, buddy system as to how many trucks or truckers are formerly here or part of this movement?
	It got so overloaded with all the requests that were going in that they couldn't keep track of the thousands of people every few minutes that were registering online.
	I haven't been to that command center yet to see if they finally total tallied the number of trucks.
	But they're also spread all over.
	Because remember, Ottawa police blocked them from coming into the city of Ottawa.
	So we have hundreds of trucks that have been sitting in farmer fields for the past couple of weeks just hanging out.
	Everybody's having a barbecue together.
	Waiting for either if they're going to move to another destination or come into Ottawa.
	Like that's the backup of the backup of the backup of the backup.
	There's so many that spread out all over.
	All right.
	And then you got, so you got trucks in Ottawa, trucks in Quebec that have been stuck there since the bridge was closed, sectioned off over there.
	Then you've got the trucks going to Quebec City.
	You've got the trucks in Coutts.
	You've got the trucks in Windsor.
	Do you have any idea, rough number, how many truck truckers are involved?
	No idea.
	No clue.
	All right.
	And then communications, say, between Ottawa and Windsor.
	Are you guys up to speed on the latest developments of what's going on in Windsor?
	Okay, so the Windsor blockade, for example, that's not us.
	We have inspired people, I guess, in their local regions.
	They did the same thing in Alberta and in Vancouver, apparently.
	Sorry, on the border between B.C. and Washington State.
	We never actually had blockades in our strategy.
	We're never going to go that direction.
	We had something else that was more passive, not quite as aggressive.
	I mean, we support their right to protest.
	That's great.
	But that's not actually, that has no involvement in our group.
	Okay, actually, so good thing to clarify now, because then I'm not totally clear on this.
	We know that there's a blockade which may or may not be dissipating now in Windsor.
	There's the blockade in Coutts.
	There's what's going on in Ottawa.
	What are the various entities by name, by structure, and what is the, I guess, the geographical scope of what we're calling the Freedom Convoy 2022?
	Break down the different entities, who's in charge of them or who's not in charge of them, and the scope of the Freedom Convoy 2022 here.
	Because it's going to be relevant as it relates to the monies raised.
	I think what has been a problem for the government is there's no specific entity in each place and there's different grievances.
	So, for example, the KUDS border in Alberta, those people are going after Jason Kenney.
	That's who they're upset with.
	They're not even focusing on Justin Trudeau, whereas we've been focusing on the federal mandates and the federal passports.
	Something else that's interesting, you know, it started with truckers.
	But then we had farmers that came out with their tractors, started doing blockades.
	And when the premier of New Brunswick, I think it was, when he said, he put past some sort of law, emergency measure, whatever, that if you participate in a convoy, it's an illegal act and you can lose your driver's license for a year, something stupid like that.
	People in the fisheries industry, who have lots of friends in trucking, Decided, okay, we're going to block the fishing ports.
	So apparently at some point the last week, there were 170 points of entry in Canada that were blocked at random times.
	And this is all organic.
	This is all different groups of people saying The guys in Ottawa have a great idea.
	Let's get in our trucks and let's do it down the street.
	Basically, I made the joke on the streets that it's like Fight Club with Fight Clubs organically arising in different cities, except it's Convoy Club.
	And so then this is going to get into the money question, but also the scope.
	What we're referring now as Freedom Convoy 2022.
	Is that what is specifically limited to Ottawa?
	Yeah, so that is now a registered charity.
	So it's a non-profit that we're setting up for all of this.
	And that's specifically for the Ottawa Convoy, and specifically with the mandate of fighting the vaccine mandates and the federal passports.
	We have a board of directors.
	We are the ones who've been working first with GoFundMe.
	Our lawyers were, you know, chasing GoFundMe to try to get money released.
	And then with Give, Send, Go, Dave Rubin has reached out to us as well and is setting us up on Locals.
	Hopefully I'll have that completed today.
	And we also have a group of people from the Bitcoin community who built the equivalent of GoFundMe, but in Bitcoin because they saw what was happening and they predicted accurately.
	That we would eventually have monies blocked from GoFundMe.
	I gotta tell you, I was not even that cynical.
	I mean, some have said I've been black-pilled, but I've certainly been red-pilled.
	I was not even that cynical that GoFundMe would go the way they went.
	Now it should be GoF me.
	Okay, so Freedom Convoy 2022 itself is a registered not-for-profit or charitable entity.
	That occurred relatively quickly.
	Yeah, within the past week or so.
	I just signed the documents three days ago.
	And that...
	Freedom Convoy 2022, we're going to refer to that as one entity, people, so you will understand the structure, or, I say this without criticism, lack of structure for the various blockades, protest, convoys.
	Freedom Convoy 2022 is exclusively what we're seeing in Ottawa with the trucks that have been kept out in Quebec and over here.
	So, limited to Ottawa.
	Their objective is end the federal mandate, which involves a plane and...
	Plane and train and trucker vaccine mandates.
	Yeah, well, it's the overall, all the mandates requiring vaccination, and it's called ArriveCan, is the application you have put on your phone.
	The ArriveCan app, which has your COVID data on your phone, which, I don't know if you saw my interview on Tucker, but what I explained was the very first time I used it, which was a week before we started here.
	I crossed the border into Ontario.
	I drove up to the booth in New York State.
	And I have it on a different phone.
	I had my phone.
	I held up my QR code.
	And I said to the border agent, you know, here's my QR code, I guess.
	It's my first time.
	And he said to me, oh, don't worry.
	I don't need it.
	So what do you mean?
	He said, oh, we can detect your phone in a certain radius.
	And it just popped up on our screen.
	So I have all your data in front of me already.
	Well, what's going to prevent the government from deciding to do that in all government buildings and not limiting that just to the border?
	So for me, that was a red flag.
	And that was on my other phone, which doesn't have a SIM card.
	It was only logged in to a Wi-Fi for my U.S. account, a U.S. Wi-Fi in my truck.
	Yet they still were able to track that that phone was within a certain radius of the border.
	And then a week later.
	He breaks his ankle.
	Steve Bannon, no coincidences.
	I'm joking.
	Okay, so that's Freedom Convoy 2022.
	What is the convoy that's responsible for or was participating in the Windsor Ambassador Bridge blockade, if you know?
	I don't.
	I don't.
	From what I understand, I don't know if it was anybody from our group.
	I think there were people...
	Like, once we got here and we were successful...
	Then we just heard, okay, there's convoys all over the country and then all over the world.
	And this is the issue.
	There's convoys and groups all over the country, all of whom speaking, and when they speak, let's just say the mainstream media or the politicians hear these various voices as one entity that they're lumping with Freedom Convoy 2022.
	So let's say, does the Freedom Convoy 2022 that's here, and for which the money was raised initially on GoFundMe and now on Give, Send, Go, have they issued a formal...
	Mission statement.
	I saw something of a memorandum of understanding, but has the Freedom Convoy issued any formal written statement about objectives?
	Yeah, so we have a couple of people doing public relations that have been issuing statements and putting them on the web and all that sort of stuff.
	The mainstream media ignores it anyways, because they're just, sorry, mainstream.
	Legacy media because they're not mainstream, right?
	They tend to ignore this stuff anyways and come up with their own narrative.
	So we've been putting them on our platforms, letting everybody know, you know, something occurs or there's any sort of objections or problem or, you know, with the mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, all of that stuff we've been putting out in press releases.
	Okay, and now I'm going to tackle one question and Jagmeet Singh.
	And then the other members of the media have said that the Convoy's stated objective is to overthrow the government.
	And I'm saying their stated objective, which was the quote, is to, quote, overthrow the government.
	First question, I know the answer.
	Has Freedom Convoy 2022, this registered charitable entity that is involved in the activities in Ottawa, have they ever said anything like that, similar to that, or something that could be misconstrued as that?
	No, not even close.
	That's what elections are for.
	We're here for mandates and passports.
	We have a minority government.
	At some point, there's going to be an election and the parties will deal with that.
	But we have no interest in subverting democracy in any way, shape or form.
	This is just about getting our freedoms back and getting rid of this tracking app.
	That's all.
	And now the next question.
	Have you heard of any of the other various offshoots, subentities, which are not formally affiliated with or connected to?
	Have you heard of any of them saying that their goal is to overthrow the government in an organized sense, not an individual people on the street, in an organized sense of any Oh, kill me.
	I don't know if I've heard it.
	It's specifically worded that way.
	But there are some people that are very, very careless in their language.
	There's also people who are saboteurs, who work either for the extreme left.
	You know, like the swastika, remember?
	Yep.
	You know, the swastika gate.
	That guy, somebody just happened to unroll, unravel a swastika in the back corner of a park, and there was a $10,000 cannon perfectly lined up to take that picture, and 20 minutes later, every NGO associated with the Liberal Party was blasting it all over the place, right?
	And then we had the guy with the Confederate flag, right?
	Why?
	It's Canada!
	We're not part of the Confederacy!
	And, you know, that guy, by the way, if you notice, he was wearing a full ski mask with sunglasses.
	It was a black balaclava.
	I'm telling you, that was Justin Trudeau, because he does like to wear black things on his face.
	Looked exactly like him.
	So we're dealing with a lot of that, and there's also people who are...
	It's really disturbing.
	I mean, you learn this in politics.
	There are people who are paid...
	Operatives, you know, provocateurs, if you will, that work for parties, work for people who are the executive of various parties, and their jobs are to kill grassroots movements.
	I don't want to give any names right now because they're entirely irrelevant, but we've been dealing with a lot of that.
	Like, the last week, oh my god, every day, it started with, we'd wake up, and all of a sudden, I would get a notice, Tamara would get a notice, whatever.
	That there's a press conference at 3 o 'clock.
	Or at 1 o 'clock.
	No.
	No, there's not.
	Who called a press conference?
	But everybody in the world, I mean, I don't blame them.
	They're energetic.
	They're excited.
	They're eager.
	They want their voice to be heard.
	And I get that.
	But we've been dealing with half our time just getting people on board with messaging and focus on end the mandates, end the passport tracking.
	Everything else is a distraction, and don't fall for the bait from the other side.
	All right, so technically we've heard, I mean, we know of other people speaking.
	If it's not for and on behalf of specific convoys, it's just generally with loud voices.
	Who are, for anybody listening and wants to know, who are the formal and, say, exclusive spokespeople for the Freedom Convoy 2022?
	If someone says something and it relates to it, the only authorized people are whom to actually issue public statements for the Freedom Convoy.
	So myself, Tamara and Dagny are official.
	We also defer to a couple of people that are on the teams.
	So there's somebody who's going to become visible later on today.
	I don't want to say who it is, but somebody in government who will be with Tamara.
	But we're the primary sources for official messaging.
	If that makes sense.
	Makes sense.
	And I'm going to ask an obvious question to the people who are still repeating.
	CJAD, I'm looking at you.
	Aaron Rand, Natasha Hall, Elias Makos, Jagmeet Singh, National Post, The Guardian.
	For the people who are still saying that this convoy's stated objective is to overthrow the government.
	Quote.
	And so therefore, how do you negotiate with people whose demands are that?
	What do you have to say to those people?
	We don't live in a third-world dictatorship, although it sometimes seems that way right now.
	We will have an election whenever the next election comes, and that's what will be decided.
	This is exclusively about removing the mandates and passport, the tracking app, and getting our freedoms back.
	Because it's been going on for two years.
	You know, they're complaining here, oh, the Ottawa businesses are suffering.
	Yeah, what about for the past two years where everybody's been locked down?
	They seem to forget that, right?
	When it's their fault, it's everyone else's problem, right?
	But no, it's exclusively just this.
	There's no ambition to overthrow any government.
	And that's also why, if you've noticed, we've kind of kept the politics out of this.
	We haven't made it a partisan thing.
	We've had people from different parties reach out to us and make overtures, and we said, great.
	But the Liberal government is in power.
	We know there are people in the Liberal Party on our side.
	We know there's another 30 Liberal...
	I know from people on the inside of the Liberal Party who've spoken to me.
	There's another 30 Liberal MPs that want to follow the initial three and are really, really ticked off with Justin Trudeau and his response because they're embarrassed, right?
	This is going to be their legacy.
	Like, look at it this way.
	You live in Quebec, right?
	We've both grown up in Canada with this baggage of Quebec separatism and Alberta doesn't like Quebec and the West doesn't like Ontario.
	Well, everyone hates Ontario, right?
	But that's been the baggage that we've had.
	And the very first day I was here, I couldn't believe it.
	You must have seen this too.
	I went to the end of the park behind Parliament Hill and I followed this massive line of...
	Tens of thousands of people crossing over into Ontario from Quebec, holding Quebec flags and Canadian flags, going up to Parliament Hill to meet their brothers from Alberta.
	They started hugging each other.
	I got a couple of pictures of guys.
	One guy has a sign that says freedom, and another guy next to him, his sign says liberté.
	They couldn't speak to each other, but they said, come, let's have a picture and hug each other, whatever.
	We went into the Tim Hortons.
	One of our team, one of my friends went to Tim Hortons.
	And she came back and she said, I couldn't believe it.
	I was in line and there were these two guys, two truckers.
	Clearly they know each other because they didn't just meet each other in line.
	They were talking and joking and laughing and whatever.
	But they were using Google Translate because one was from Quebec and the other one was from Saskatchewan.
	So this is what happens when the media...
	And politicians get out of the way, we all unify and we respect each other's differences and we, in fact, embrace them.
	It's been the most beautiful experience and I never, ever thought I would see this in Canada.
	It's been amazing.
	I'm sure you've seen it.
	Well, I was going to say, actually, and those who have been watching the 10 days of live streaming, at one point I ran into a French-Canadian who was saying how he was a separatist and he was almost saying it apologetically because he was here with a unified Canada.
	And I said, first of all, you don't need to apologize for that.
	People are entitled to their political beliefs.
	But that is the level of...
	You've got French Canadians coming from Quebec with the drapeau des patriotes.
	And it is amazing.
	Liberté, freedom on these cars, on Quebec.
	And it's beautiful.
	But then you've got...
	I mean, I've got to ask you this.
	You have seen the crowd here from day one.
	I only saw it from day three, the Monday after it all started.
	And I knew what I was being told on the news.
	How do you feel?
	What's your reaction when you hear these guys who...
	I don't know if they've been here since day one.
	Referring to this group as white supremacists, racists, misogynists, anti-black racists, transphobes, anti-Semites.
	How does it make you feel?
	And what do you have to say to the world?
	I find it hysterical and I laugh at it.
	And I say, you know what?
	Why don't you come to my synagogue next time we have high holidays and tell them all that I'm a white supremacist?
	Like, it's the stupidest garbage.
	That's all they have.
	All they do is name call.
	It doesn't work because we don't care.
	Truckers are pretty strong people with pretty thick skin.
	And, you know, there's some colorful language on the CVs when you're in a truck.
	Not as colorful as kids playing Call of Duty on Xbox, by the way.
	But quite colorful.
	Call us whatever name you want.
	We don't care.
	It's not going to change anything.
	It's like whiny children.
	That's what our legacy media has devolved into.
	And it's quite sad.
	All right, now let's get into the thorny question or the most important one.
	The money, because nobody can really imagine that when you start a GoFundMe, and when it gets to $150,000, and then people start freaking out, and then it gets to $10.5 million.
	Before we even get there, explain to the world, are you allowed to discuss the Give, Send, not the Give, Send, Go, but rather the GoFundMe?
	Yeah.
	Okay, so tell everyone what happened with the GoFundMe.
	Okay, there's two stages with GoFundMe.
	First...
	It was hysterical.
	The fake news Toronto Star and the CBC and Yahoo News, I think, parroted it.
	On the first couple of days, we're running stories how GoFundMe has suspended what they call us, alt-right, white supremacist campaign, whatever.
	And when I saw the Toronto Star story, we had just got off the phone with GoFundMe about an hour before.
	And the nature of the conversation was, great, we're working with your lawyers.
	Everything's going to be good.
	We'll take care of you, whatever.
	Because GoFundMe always does that with a new account and a new campaign, especially one that's their eighth or seventh fastest growing campaign in history.
	So this is part of their due diligence and their regular process.
	Yet the fake news is running this story that they blocked it.
	So I told everybody, don't respond.
	Let them dig their graves.
	And after, what, seven, eight days, whatever it was, when GoFundMe, We finally said, okay, we're going to start processing things.
	We released an update or press release on GoFundMe saying, thank you.
	It's been great working with you.
	We're very disappointed that some people in legacy media decided to write fake stories about it.
	But, you know, that's their choice.
	And the other thing that's funny about the fake news media, it's like they don't have eyes.
	Like they go to the page and they say, oh, it's been frozen.
	It's like...
	Can't you see the numbers changing?
	There's more donations coming in there.
	That's not frozen.
	That's not how it works, right?
	So that was the first stage.
	And we thought everything was fine.
	We eventually, the lawyers took it over, right?
	So eventually put in a request to withdraw the first, whatever was, 1, 1.4 million, whatever it was, the first batch.
	Okay.
	And around that time, it took this long, is when it got to $10 million, $10.1 million.
	Then all of a sudden we had an actual freeze.
	Now, I thought we were being brigaded by activists online.
	It turns out it was the mayor of Ottawa and the chief of police collaborating together to advocate for GoFundMe to drop it.
	So we don't know what the statement is that the police gave, but the police gave some...
	completely false statement to GoFundMe that this is a violent white supremacist insurrection, whatever it was.
	And GoFundMe responded with, okay, great.
	We have everything we need.
	And now we're going to cancel it.
	And we're going to keep the money and give it to a charity of our choice.
	And the mayor of Ottawa went on stupidly Twitter to brag about it.
	And thank you, GoFundMe, for heeding the call or however he worded it.
	From the Ottawa Police and the City of Ottawa for blocking this hateful, insurrect, whatever word, verbage he used.
	So that was with, so that was the first time, and then, oh, what's it called?
	Florida man Ron DeSantis piped up, and the Attorney General and Ted Cruz said, you know what, this is, this borders on criminal fraud.
	I think this warrants an investigation.
	And all of a sudden, GoFundMe said, no, no, no!
	We're going to return all the money!
	I made a face when you said, we're not yet a totally corrupt nation.
	We're still a democracy.
	And then when you hear things like this, we're going to get into the court case with Give, Send, Go!
	Because I have no doubt they reiterated these very same statements they made to GoFundMe in the form of an affidavit to allow the court to restrain the Give, Send, Go!
	campaign.
	But this is...
	This is some interesting level stuff.
	Okay, sorry.
	Carry on.
	Alright, so that was GoFundMe.
	Then GiveSendGo reached out to us.
	We spoke with Jacob, who's the CEO, who's been great.
	He said, okay, we'll set everything up.
	We'll just continue where it is.
	People will get their money back.
	Hopefully they'll donate again and we can continue.
	And don't worry, we don't hold the money.
	At least that's their process.
	They try not to hold it.
	They try to just process.
	Fine.
	I think we hit $1.5 million in the first hour and a half.
	Sorry, in the first 12 hours, $1.5 million.
	And then somebody told me it was like $4 million in the first 24. I mean, I've been so busy with other stuff, I couldn't track it.
	But it was definitely accelerating far beyond what GoFundMe did, because that angered people, right?
	It just motivated them to donate more.
	And we were going great.
	They hit up to $8.5 million.
	U.S. And that's when Doug Ford, Mr. For the People, screwed everybody in the U.S. and Ontario who donated and went to court and got this...
	It was an order of restraint under Section 490.8 of the Criminal Code.
	The copy of the order was public, but we haven't seen the affidavits filed in support of it.
	And I would love to see what the whoever swore in those affidavits said in those affidavits.
	We'll see that one day.
	But if there's lawyers out there who have found the affidavits, they are or should be public documents unless they're under seal.
	If they're under seal, I'm not interested in leaking that stuff.
	I'd love to see what they say.
	But they got that order to restrain the ten and a half million dollars and where does it So now they were actually going to transfer the first We're going to hold on to the money now while you guys go to court and litigate it.
	And the other thing, by the way, the initial transfer we got from GoFundMe, which was 1.4 million approximately, is in a bank account in TD and TD frozen.
	Anything from Doug Ford.
	So if you think it's your money, it's not your money.
	It's unprecedented.
	It's absolutely disgusting.
	So that was, I guess, the first question.
	You said earlier with the GoFundMe that they had released one million and change.
	Had that been, what's the word I'm looking for, not disposed of?
	Had that been used or spent?
	No.
	That money went to our account and then TD froze it like they didn't know what was going on.
	And our lawyer contacted their lawyer and, you know, started loitering, you know, what that is like.
	And they agreed that they're going to transfer it to our lawyer's escrow or trust account and that the lawyers would manage it.
	The last I heard when I spoke to my lawyer about this a couple of days ago, he was with me.
	He said, he looked and showed me the phone and said, they still haven't transferred money.
	And I had read, I thought that...
	Maybe they have deposited it in court, which is something that they can do.
	There's administrative fees for depositing monies in court.
	That's a percentage of the amount.
	So if anybody in the chat knows what happened to that $1.5 million.
	So that is to say then, I guess to quell one concern, of the $10.1 million from GoFundMe, one point change had been transferred, was subsequently frozen by TD, and of the $10 million with GiveSendGo, none of it has been disposed of?
	That's right.
	I mean, what is the plan with that money?
	The concern of the people out there is that you, Tamara, or the other organizers are going to line their pockets, line their friends' pockets.
	You have an auditor for the not-for-profit?
	Yeah, we have an accountant on board that's setting everything up.
	The first step is to get the money released.
	And that's what our lawyers are going to deal with this week.
	Tomorrow they're going to court.
	And they're going to start fighting it and try to get this freeze lifted by the Ontario government.
	I'm staying out of it.
	I don't want any of this money.
	I want this money to go to the truckers.
	That's what it's for.
	And that's where it's going to go.
	So when we initially put the GoFundMe in this stand, the money was for the cost of the journey because there are additional costs beyond, you know, just fuel and food and repairs and stuff like that.
	Like, I don't know, legal fees that's on Ford is bleeding from us.
	I mean, we'll just have to litigate it, and eventually we'll get it.
	I mean, unfortunately, that's just...
	I saw some people asking, TD is Toronto Dominion.
	It's a national bank here.
	And yeah, the lawyers are not going to have to worry about getting paid because even if there's a freeze on the funds, they will release the funds necessary for a defense.
	We don't live yet in that type of corrupt regime, although not far off.
	So that is to say then...
	None of the truckers and none of you, none of the administrators, none of the reps have seen one dollar of the monies raised yet?
	Of the monies raised, no.
	They will.
	So what we've been doing is out of pocket.
	We've just been taking our own money and giving it to drivers and helping them out and throwing them $500 here, $500 there to as many drivers as possible.
	Some people have been walking around giving cash donations to drivers just to help them out, which is great.
	I mean, it's been keeping everybody happy.
	And then the other thing that happened in parallel to this was the Bitcoin community.
	And everybody gets scared and they hear the word Bitcoin and they shouldn't.
	But the Bitcoin community was monitoring this and they saw what was going on.
	And these are some very serious players in the Bitcoin community.
	And they started a tally coin fund, which is basically GoFundMe, but in Bitcoin, to collect Bitcoin for the truckers.
	And today is actually the day we're working with...
	An exchange to start converting some of that Bitcoin into dollars so we can send it to some of the drivers.
	That's today's goal.
	Okay, interesting.
	And then what is the ultimate goal, the plan with the monies?
	I mean, you're going to reimburse cost of travel, food.
	Is it to reimburse for lost remuneration?
	If we have enough money for that, for sure.
	So the Bitcoin fund initially was for legal because they were quite fed up with how the government had behaved and the media.
	Who's been smearing us all, calling us different names.
	And that's why I put a tweet out a few days ago with just the words, Nicholas Sandman.
	And we already have a strategy.
	So that's what the chunk of the Bitcoin money is for.
	But because everything else is being held up, we're going to take a portion of that and start giving it to the drivers.
	And we have an idea of what everybody needs just to stay afloat, comfortable, have food, all that sort of stuff.
	So that's our primary goal right now.
	So everybody also out there can be a little quelled.
	I'm not a not-for-profit expert by any means.
	I just know that typically they have to appoint an auditor, correct?
	To provide audited financial statements.
	It's the first time I've ever been in audited.
	I think that's a requirement.
	You will see what the registered non-profit does with the funds.
	And I won't use hyperbolic analogies.
	But people will get in trouble if there's pilfering or whatever.
	I guess the main question is this.
	People raising money for the other convoys, the other entities that are not formally Freedom Convoy 2022.
	Who's controlling that?
	What's regulating that?
	And who knows what's being done with those funds, if you know?
	That we can't do anything about, right?
	Like, there are so many different, not only in Bitcoin and crypto, but just in this regular give, send, go.
	And so many people have been setting up their own drives.
	I mean, some people are scammers, some people aren't.
	There's individual groups, like smaller groups that ran their own GoFundMes, you know, raise like 20, 40 grand or whatever for their expenses.
	That's fine.
	I mean, that just doesn't have anything to do with us.
	But listen, if a group of 50 trucks want to go together and operate on their own, okay, cool.
	We support you.
	And people, you have to appreciate this as well.
	There's a certain element of due diligence that's required in people donating so that you know that you're donating to a legit.
	If someone sets one up, make sure you know the person and that you're not just, you know, pulling a, what was it, Bobbitt McClure, the gas station, the homeless person who gave his last 20 to the woman to get gas and they raised $400,000 and it was all just a ploy from the beginning.
	So this is one thing that's interesting about Give, Send, Go and I spoke with Jake and myself just a little while.
	Yeah, not about this, just in general.
	And he's like, Give, Send, Go is community-based in a sense so that you know who you're giving to.
	So random charities pop up.
	You could be a little suspect.
	Okay, so I guess then now the next question.
	What's logistically...
	Unless anyone has...
	Unless I have not satisfied everyone's concerns about the financial aspect, digest, do your own due diligence and, you know...
	And we're going to be doing more...
	We're going to be doing some more Twitter spaces.
	There was a Twitter space last night.
	Was it with Amber?
	David Amber had done one, but he's a lawyer.
	It was 2,000 people yelling at me.
	Ottawa residents?
	All over the world.
	Okay.
	Primarily in the US, but all over.
	So I said to them, what we're going to do is we'll do some more Twitter spaces so people can come in and ask questions.
	Like when I left, there was another, I know, 30 or 40 questions that were remaining.
	But guys, it was one in the morning.
	I was going to do it more regularly.
	And I think we're going to bring Nick, one of the Bitcoin guys, in just to discuss a little bit more on our strategy with getting money to the truckers.
	And people can ask and get a little bit familiar with that because that's how we're going to have to operate at least for the next however long it takes our lawyers to get some action in the funds.
	And I guess this brings us into the next and probably last category, the operations.
	Plan of action.
	What is the latest?
	The injunction to cease honking horns, from what I can tell, has been respected.
	That expires in a few days.
	What's the latest on the lawsuits and what's the plan going forward, strategy-wise, in terms of your occupation in Ottawa?
	Occupation.
	Good.
	You mean parking?
	We've been parking.
	Okay.
	So, with respect to the...
	The current strategy right now, like yesterday it was a big hoopla because the mayor of Ottawa reached out to us.
	And the mayor of Ottawa made a request, can you, you know, move some of the trucks from residential areas, alleviate some of the congestion and all that sort of stuff.
	So we said, yeah, you know, because we're insurrectionists, so obviously we're going to work with the government, right?
	So we agreed and we said, okay, we'll help alleviate some of the traffic.
	We're not going anywhere.
	All the trucks are staying, but we'll jockey them a little bit just to help ease some of the congestion for the residents.
	With the injunction that you said, by the way, I don't know if you took a look at it, it was hysterical.
	The fake news media reported that we lost an injunction for honking.
	That's not what happened.
	There was an injunction against us for everything.
	They wanted to seize vehicles.
	They wanted to bring in wreckers to tow them.
	They wanted to fine people.
	They had this long list of things that they wanted that were completely ridiculous.
	You as a lawyer would have laughed at it, right?
	So the judge struck down everything.
	Except for one.
	Which I presume you consented to in the first place, to stop honking between eight and eight.
	It was stop honking only air horns and train horns, which are quite loud, and limit them to a certain designated area.
	Because the judge said, I can't argue that train horns in the middle of the city aren't a nuisance.
	And we said, okay, we get that.
	That we understand.
	But they lost everything else.
	So the fake news media spins up and says, oh, Convoy loses injunction on Horns.
	It's like, no.
	The Horns was the smallest thing that they were requesting.
	And so what's the latest in that?
	That lawsuit is going to continue carrying on, carrying on?
	I guess so.
	And logistically on the ground, what's your plan of action?
	It's been two and a half weeks now?
	Yep.
	So right now, we celebrated the third week of Trudeau's truck stop on Sunday.
	And we have quite a few celebrities, actually, who've reached out to me in the past 24 hours who want to fly up here and come and speak on the stage on our behalf.
	So we'll just continue doing this until the government realizes maybe we should just drop the mandates in the past.
	You know what?
	It's infuriating, and you'll understand this.
	It's the easiest win in the world.
	It's not like we're...
	We're advocating for change to the Constitution and we want to change the country fundamentally.
	Just drop the mandates.
	That's it.
	Just let us get back to normal.
	That's all we want.
	And by the way, this is the strategic mistake.
	Even in battle, you have to watch what you say because some words cannot be unsaid.
	And so when Justin Trudeau comes out day one or day two and calls every name under the sun, effectively likening them to terrorists, he then puts himself in a position where he cannot...
	He can't compromise anymore.
	And it's as a result of overplaying your hand but also just allowing ego to get involved in the debate.
	Some things can't be unsaid and some things when you say them, you then limit your own ability to negotiate with yourself without putting yourself in a position of being a hypocrite.
	But if the media were doing its job and just accurately portraying what's going on here, I think the public opinion would be more favorable to just sit down and negotiate with them and as opposed to too many people, in my view, actually think that This entire convoy is defined by consistent examples of bad flags and bad actions, whereas those are the excessively rare examples.
	I think there hasn't been one since the beginning, since day one or two.
	And the other thing is, it's hysterical.
	The two spokespeople who really got this started with our team, one is a Métis woman from Alberta, and the other is a Jew.
	But Prime Minister Blackface, he's the virtuous one who's not racist.
	He is the most racist person to hold office in our country's history.
	It's gross.
	But whatever.
	Don't really care.
	Just drop the mandates and end the pastor program and everybody gets up and goes home.
	It's the easiest to win.
	You talk about not being able to score on an empty net.
	Well, so here's the deal.
	This is the question.
	I've answered it, but maybe I'll hear your take on it.
	The argument is going to be...
	Federal mandates are different than provincial mandates, so the feds can't control what goes on in the provinces, and it's provincial mandates that are the vaccine passports, not the Arrive Can.
	So, would the Freedom Convoy 2022 be satisfied if the Arrive Can and federal mandates were lifted, but the provinces still maintained whatever provincial mandates they had?
	Yes, because, okay, so yes, we're focusing on the federal Arrive Can app and the federal mandates, but if you notice, already...
	The premiers are starting to sway and testing messages of removing mandates.
	I think, what was it, Kenny said a couple of days ago that they're going to end all mandates.
	And I think Ford said something similar.
	Hashtag, nothing to do with truckers, right?
	That's fine.
	But I think once you see the federal requirement is gone.
	The rest of them don't want to deal with this either, and I think you'll see the provinces will fold like everybody else.
	And not telling you guys how to do your job, but if you insist on the Fed not subsidizing the provincial vaccine passports with a billion federal dollars, that might limit a province's willingness to partake in a program for which the government has promised a billion dollars to the provinces.
	Why would anyone leave good money on the table, especially when it's not theirs?
	So, okay, now everyone, I'm going to wind this interview down in a few minutes.
	I'm going to go black for a few minutes while I go outside.
	Don't leave.
	Don't think the government got me.
	I just don't want to have any connectivity issues while I get in the elevator.
	So I'll bring myself out and bring myself back in.
	But final words, Ben, what do you have to say to the world?
	What do you want the world to know?
	Who's watching now with a reasonably open mind?
	And what can we expect in the coming days?
	If you can, come to Ottawa.
	It's...
	The best vibe I've ever seen in Canada's history.
	It's a party.
	It's a festival.
	There's music.
	There's food.
	If people come back to the hotel, I can't eat.
	Everybody's been giving me food all day long.
	It's people hanging out with their families, meeting new people, falling in love, because they've been trapped for the past two years, but now everybody's finding friends across the country.
	It's amazing.
	I can't tell you the feeling that's going on here.
	If you can come here, come here.
	If not, watch the live streams online.
	Share it with people.
	Get engaged.
	This is how we're going to fix things that are happening in all of these countries where our freedoms are restricted.
	And I think the people in the political class, I could give you the example of those 30 liberal MPs, they're not evil.
	They just haven't realized that, okay, we're taking things a little too far.
	And people just want their basic rights of freedoms, and they want to go on with their lives.
	But until that happens, it's so much fun.
	I gotta tell you, it's great.
	And now, we are expecting a declaration from Justin Trudeau or a press conference.
	I don't know if it's happened yet, actually.
	Chat, let me know if Trudeau has already spoken, because I'm disconnected while I'm streaming.
	If it hasn't happened yet, what do you understand that Trudeau is going to say?
	What do you expect from Trudeau and its impact, potentially, on the convoy?
	I have no clue.
	I mean...
	I would think, if I was logical, what he would be doing is setting the stage for messaging in the next week or two weeks that they're going to end mandates, and it's because they saved us with their policies of locking us down, and because of that we got Omnicron, and Omnicron's not killing anybody, so now it's time to open up.
	I think that would be logical, right?
	It's an easy win for them.
	The only problem is, you know, when he did the press conference two weeks ago, I think it was, somebody asked me, what do you think he's going to say?
	And I went on to Twitter and I said, prediction, Prime Minister Blackface is going to come out and call us all racist, ex-phobes and bigots and Nazis.
	And that's exactly what he did.
	But I think that strategy has run its course, even amongst his own people, his own base.
	I saw a poll today that amongst liberal voters...
	His handling of the truckers, they give him, his approval rating is 15%.
	And in politics, most people who know, like when you're in a leadership contest, if you're below 20%, you resign.
	Now, he wouldn't just because it's one isolated incident.
	But it just goes to show that they have the numbers and the data to show them that this strategy is the wrong strategy and they should reverse course.
	And I think...
	Canada will be much better off if they do that.
	And it'll be good for him.
	You know what?
	Yeah, he'll be a little bit bruised politically, but he'll come out and say, I listened to the people.
	You know, we did what we thought was right.
	Maybe it was wrong.
	We don't know.
	But everybody is free.
	And now we can be a unified Canada again.
	All right.
	Awesome.
	So final words.
	Now, where can people find you?
	Where can people find contacts for the convoy?
	Where can they get their questions answered?
	And what can they do to help?
	Okay.
	You can find me on Twitter.
	BJDichter is my Twitter handle.
	And on Getter as well.
	I just signed up for Getter because, you know, it's only a matter of time, right?
	Tamara as well.
	So Tamara underscore NBC on Twitter.
	Hold on a second.
	Dichter, people, is D-I-C-H-T-E-R.
	So BJDichter.
	Yeah.
	That's at.
	And then Tamara is Tamara.
	Tamara underscore NBC.
	It's her Twitter handle.
	Like MamaVictoryCharlie.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	You can go to Gifts and Go.
	By the way, when Gifts and Go started, they were getting 5 million DDoS attacks an hour.
	An hour.
	5 million on top of the overwhelming number of requests to donate.
	That's why they...
	So even with the website barely operating, and I couldn't get on for seven hours...
	They still managed to process $1.5 million.
	So give those guys a lot of credit.
	They've been up against a lot.
	So anyways, you can go to Give, Send, Go and type in Freedom Convoy Canada.
	You'll see the video of Tamara giving the introduction.
	What's the name of the corporate entity on Give, Send, Go if you know offhand?
	I think it's Freedom Convoy Human Rights.
	I gotta check.
	Check and I'll...
	Either comment or...
	But it's a video of Tamara.
	There's a video of Tamara talking about it.
	So that's the one you'll see.
	You'll see it has like 8 million or whatever it is.
	You can go there.
	I'm going to be on the phone with Dave Rubin's people again.
	So you'll be able to go to freedomconvoy.locals.com.
	We're in the middle of setting them up.
	And if you go to Twitter at HonkHonkHodl, you'll find a link to the TallyCoin if you do want to donate with Bitcoin.
	You can make a donation there.
	I think we're up to $1.1, $1.2 million in Bitcoin, and we're going to be converting that into fiat to get it to the drivers.
	All right.
	Fiat, for those of you who don't know, is regular money.
	Funny money.
	Funny money.
	Okay, Ben, thank you very much.
	Everybody, I'm going to go dark for, it might be five minutes.
	Don't get nervous.
	Don't lose hope.
	Continue either chatting or fighting in the chat.
	I notice a lot of colorful comments.
	I'm going to go dark.
	I'm going to pull myself out and then we're going to go back live from the streets.
	I'm going to go up and do what we've been doing for the last 10 days.
	So stay tuned.
	We'll be back in a second.
	Not ending.
	I just want to get out.
	Let me see here.
	Like this.
	Like this.
	Like this.
	Like this.
	Thank you.
	Oh.
	I'm live.
	Alright.
	Tell me if you can hear me, people.
	I'm gonna put my glove on.
	Okay, you see me, everybody?
	Hold on.
	Every time I do it, it hurts.
	Okay, it doesn't matter.
	We're on.
	So it's cold today.
	It's not blistering.
	It was minus 14 or 15. Everybody can hear me and you can see me.
	How's it going?
	Loud and clear.
	Yes, we see you.
	Strange.
	Booyah.
	Okay.
	I hope that answers some questions, quells some concerns.
	I can read the chat.
	You know, it's tough to trust people in the best of times, let alone in the worst of times.
	Money corrupts.
	When you see bags of money and massive accounts of money, yeah, people can get greedy.
	They can start to do things...
	I'm satisfied.
	I'm a little pissed off with what...
	Still, not a little.
	I'm still massively pissed off with what GoFundMe did.
	The system can be weaponized very easily against political adversaries, as we're seeing now in real time.
	But it's also a very complicated thing because even I was under the impression that the Freedom Convoy 2022, this Freedom Convoy here, was related to the Ambassador Bridge.
	I, you know, had no idea that these are all independent, autonomous organizations or very disorganized organizations that are just popping up.
	Left, right, and center.
	Thanks for streaming the blistering cold.
	Yeah, I got my battery packs.
	I don't think I'm going to need them all today because I'm not going to be out for too long, but we're just going to go now.
	But that's it.
	You met Ben Victor.
	I know what the internet says when it comes to, you know, when the internet wants to raise suspicions or create drama, create rumors.
	I know what it says, but I don't get into the rumors.
	I don't get into the drama.
	I'm just walking around with a camera.
	Yeah, I've seen that super task force.
	I'm not getting into the...
	I'm not getting into that type of rumor drama.
	Not my thing.
	Others are going to do it.
	Not my thing.
	I'm getting arrested.
	No, I'm not.
	This...
	So what's going on here?
	Because...
	The police officer is escorting the convoy trucks in.
	Let's see what's going on here.
	Yeah, they definitely are.
	We've got another live streamer here.
	Oh, he might not be live streaming.
	He might just be recording.
	Oh, what's going on here?
	Sorry, I'm not recording your face.
	Sorry, we can't answer questions.
	Okay.
	No questions.
	Anyways, so two trucks are up here.
	I think some of the cops might have learned their lessons about answering questions and then getting in trouble with an angry internet mob who didn't like their answers.
	Okay, what's going on here?
	They're going to play hardball with these truckers, but they're directing them right into the heart of it all.
	Do you know why they're bringing these truckers in?
	I don't know.
	They've got a police escort.
	Yeah, they've got a police escort.
	You don't mind being on camera if you end up on camera?
	The cop didn't want to answer any questions, and I didn't want to record his face in case he's facilitating an insurrection.
	They've let two truckers into the convoy.
	This is Wellington.
	Parliament Hill.
	How do you find this?
	Oh, this is interesting.
	It's a piece of history.
	And I think it's as peaceful as it could possibly be.
	Are you from Ottawa?
	No, I'm from north of Toronto.
	Okay.
	I see.
	People think it's a joke.
	Peaceful is an understatement.
	This place is going to be cleaner when they leave than when they got here.
	We watched a group of guys cleaning up the ice.
	They were doing a better job than the public works.
	I haven't seen any public works down here, but I've seen a lot of guys down here cleaning up and picking up garbage and serving free food to anyone that comes down.
	Fantastic.
	It's horrible.
	It's scary.
	I'm fearing for my life, really.
	Especially with that symbol of hate on your back.
	They've turned patriotic flags into hate symbols.
	Not the convoy.
	The media.
	How are you doing?
	Look at this.
	It's beautiful.
	It's beautiful.
	You mind talking on camera?
	Not necessarily, but I was here earlier, and there were several other trucks coming in, so they're tripling in.
	Okay, so they're getting more trucks in.
	It's an act of aggression, but I'm trying to...
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
	So, didn't want to be on camera, but he says they're letting a few more trucks in.
	If anybody knows, has Justin Trudeau made the statement of the day?
	People are expecting it to be a declaration of state of emergency under the Emergencies Act.
	The Emergencies Act and declarations of emergencies in Canada in 2022, or say 2020 to 2022, they're Skittles.
	Everybody gets one.
	The government has become the Oprah Winfrey of emergency declarations.
	Go get an emergency declaration.
	We didn't get enough interviews with truckers recently.
	I'm going to see if I can get some more.
	Look at this.
	Look at this sign of hate.
	It actually says unity in it.
	It's cold today.
	And there's not very many people.
	Compare the amount of people now to what we saw Saturday.
	If you all don't remember, it was a stream of people flowing on this street endlessly.
	And now it's dried up, but it's Monday, and it's minus 14 or 15 Celsius.
	How's it going?
	So there's a lane.
	There's an emergency lane for emergency traffic.
	That was a police car.
	Let's see if we can get a trucker.
	We want to get a trucker.
	Here's some stories.
	Oh, okay, so thank you.
	Apparently he's speaking at 3 p.m., so that'll be in an hour.
	How you doing?
	I'm back.
	We got a trucker in here.
	No trucker there.
	We'll walk back to the further point of the convoy that I haven't been back to in a while.
	Ooh, they changed the sign, people.
	The sign used to say, why are you hiding us?
	Open the bridges.
	This is what the new sign says as of February 14, 2022.
	And yes, everyone in the chat, I remembered it's Valentine's Day.
	Except by I remembered it's Valentine's Day, I mean my daughter did.
	And she's going to pick up a Valentine's Day gift at her discretion for Marion, for me.
	And I'm not going to tell Marion.
	Wink!
	This says now, be on the right side of history.
	Remember your oath.
	Thanks.
	I think it's a good person.
	No, no, no.
	Thank you.
	It's an amazing thing.
	In argument, in discussion, people throw around that statement.
	You're going to be on the wrong side of history.
	Imagine the people blockading simply to have our constitutional rights reinstated as if they could have ever been suspended in the first place.
	As if that.
	It's going to be on the wrong side of history.
	As opposed to the counter-protesters, in my humble opinion, who are sitting there saying, it is acceptable that the government tells you to lose your job if you don't get this particular medical intervention.
	Not anyone at large, not polio, not TB.
	This one in particular.
	To think that they think in their minds that they're going to be on the right side of history when they use that same trope.
	Look at this.
	Look at this.
	Oh, yeah.
	What is that?
	My goodness.
	You can cook a cow with this.
	You got food on there?
	Oh, we got this food on the barbie.
	Let's see what we got.
	Oh, that was a whole pig?
	Yeah.
	Darn it.
	I missed it.
	I'll be back.
	Thank you.
	That was a whole pig on a spin.
	That was an extremely hot jet-powered flamethrower heater.
	How you doing?
	Let's see.
	Here we go.
	Loch Ness Trucking.
	Fight for freedom.
	Yep.
	That'll be on the wrong side of it.
	But here, here, these are the offensive signs.
	That's the F word.
	That says F Trudeau.
	Freedom Convoy 2022.
	Mandate are enforced like a law but are not law.
	COVID ads are harassment.
	There's that old meme.
	A virus, a pandemic so serious it requires an ad campaign to warn people about it.
	With symptoms so severe it requires a test to know if you have it.
	That is oversimplifying it.
	Yes, that is something of a strawman characterization because the elderly were the ones that were getting nailed by it.
	I don't think they needed an ad campaign to know what they need to do in their own mind for their own best interest.
	Thank you.
	I won't read that out loud, but the second part of it was the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	It's an incredible thing.
	So Justin Trudeau is expected to declare a national state of emergency because the Emergencies Act, it's federal law.
	Oh my God, there you go.
	Let's get some sun.
	It's federal law and it requires a state of emergency sufficiently serious that the government can bypass the ordinary legislative process.
	How you doing?
	To enact measures to deal with the emergency.
	So you imagine this here, the blockade that we saw in Windsor.
	And by the way, my brother, if anyone hasn't seen that, I think everyone watching now has seen.
	My brother's also a lawyer.
	And went to Windsor yesterday to see what was going on.
	My brother's middle name is Ari, and that means a lion.
	For anybody who didn't see it, my goodness, did my brother's lion come out.
	But so they're expected to declare a state of emergency for this, for the Windsor blockade, which I think has been resolved by way of injunction now, and the protesters have been complying with the injunction.
	How you doing?
	The protesters have been complying with the injunction, which is exactly what all insurrections do.
	They comply with court orders.
	And so they're going to declare, that's the expectation, that Trudeau will declare a state of emergency so that they can issue emergency proclamations that bypass the ordinary legislative process because of the emergency.
	Because they've seen how they can do it for two years for a health emergency.
	Why can't they do it for this?
	Forget democracy.
	Forget the legislative process.
	Forget debates.
	Forget having to prove...
	The necessity of the measures, the effectiveness of the measures, emergency declaration.
	In the dead of the night, you get Francois Legault, PM of Quebec, passing the vaccine passport and wants to avoid public debate because he doesn't want to expose the lowly, ignorant citizenry, the hoi polloi who are incapable of understanding facts.
	He doesn't want to expose them to misinformation.
	This is actually what he said coming out of Quebec.
	So just keep milking for two-plus years now, emergency declarations, so you can violate the Constitution through diktat, through edicts that have never had any public debate, have never had any evidentiary hearings to show the necessity, the effectiveness, and above all else, not only that they would be effective, but that they wouldn't cause more damage than doing nothing.
	But government is the only entity that would rather do something that's worse than doing nothing, because at least if you do something, you're doing something, even if it's worse.
	Okay, we're at the end of one section.
	Quiet as anything.
	Quiet as anything.
	How's it going?
	You got a minute?
	Absolutely.
	Do you mind being on camera?
	I don't, and I'm calling my brother, Dr. Ryan, who's a big fan.
	Oh, very cool.
	Let's see if you'll answer.
	What kind of doctor?
	Chemist.
	Now, I'm going to come around this way, and you're going to say hi to the world?
	I will.
	Okay, what do you have to say?
	Hi, world.
	Please stand with Canada and support the battle against the tyranny.
	Where are you in from?
	Texas.
	You're in from Texas?
	Yeah, we actually met real briefly about a week ago.
	I had a face mask because it's cold here.
	Oh, no, it's cold.
	Today it's cold, but it's dry.
	It's like we say, it's dry cold, so it's not...
	The skin has to be pink but not white.
	If it gets white...
	How do you keep it from...
	Turning into little ice cubes.
	Well, I trimmed, and I don't really have that much anymore.
	But you're in from Texas.
	I am.
	We live here now, but we're...
	In Ottawa.
	Yep, we're living locally, which I was going to share with you this whole time that this has been going on.
	It hasn't really interrupted our flow of freedom and movement, but yesterday I was trying to get home, and believe it or not, the one time that I actually had my route to get in and out of my home...
	Blocked was by the anti-protesters who were upset about blockage of roads who then took it upon themselves to block roads.
	And they literally were walking around with signs saying, honk if...
	I don't want to say it.
	Honk if the Fauci juice works.
	They're complaining about the honking and then presumably trying to get people to honk.
	There's no shortage of inconsistencies.
	So you're from Texas and you live here.
	Did you hear honking throughout the night in the early stages?
	Only when we were down.
	Right downtown.
	We're a little on the outer edges, so we're not right here, but occasionally when people drive by on 417, you hear it.
	So, I mean, it's not horrible.
	I mean, it's like being in New York City, but not as bad.
	People are nicer and more polite.
	Fantastic.
	So, no, it's been a great experience.
	Hopefully, what I'm hearing in the news, as a lawyer, I'm curious, what are your thoughts on their chances of being able to justify the Emergency Powers Act?
	Well, I mean, I've just been talking about it.
	They've been doing it for two years, so it's...
	The courts seem to be on the side of the government, which is to be expected.
	But we'll see.
	We'll see.
	But my theory...
	I'm going to say my theory in a bit.
	Actually, you'll have to see it later.
	I'll tune in.
	Thanks, buddy.
	My theory, by the way.
	Oh!
	My theory about the...
	When Ego gets involved, if Justin Trudeau declares a state of emergency, he's going to do it, to not do anything with it, to then subsequently roll back the measures like I predicted earlier, but I'll be off on the timeline.
	And then he'll be able to say, oh, sir, autowalks is here.
	Then he'll be able to say, I flexed my big muscles, invoked the Emergencies Act, and then, you know, the science changed, and then we're there.
	Sir, interwebs, this is the inception.
	How you been doing?
	Very good.
	No, it's just the same.
	Everyone has to realize how ridiculous, we're like, it's like the mating call of the live streamers.
	We're holding our cameras and like, No, and it's been fairly minimal so far, so...
	Counter-protesters?
	Have you gone to the counter-protesters?
	No, I didn't know exactly where it was at the time.
	I just happened to be here.
	I wonder if they would appreciate or not appreciate your or my presence.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Actually, at the end of my live stream last night, someone kind of gave me a...
	Just to go home and wipe trash.
	Something like that.
	And that was the only negative interaction I had the past 18 days.
	Just to say.
	Amazing.
	Which way are you headed now?
	I'm heading towards Parliament.
	Okay, so everybody, auto walks.
	If you want the choose your own adventure that goes to Parliament, auto walks on YouTube.
	If you want the one that goes down, I don't know what's down there, Viva Frye.
	Sir?
	Viva Frye.
	Keep it up.
	Alright, have a good one.
	See you soon.
	It's so funny.
	Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction.
	That's very funny.
	Never seen happen.
	You've never seen happier people in your life.
	It's a very, very cold day today.
	Choose your own adventure.
	It's the choose your own live stream.
	I'm going to turn around for two seconds, stop talking, and warm up my face.
	Oh my goodness.
	It seems we have found the last of the street phones.
	You see, children, before cell phones, we had these phones, and they had numbers, you see?
	613-780-9179.
	Out of service, well, I guess that.
	Children of the interwebs, who was born 2010 and later, that is called a telephone.
	A pay telephone.
	I haven't used one since they cost 25 cents.
	And from what I understand, they now cost more than 25 cents.
	Those things used to be everywhere.
	And when I used to go on road trips with my wife, back before the days of the cell phones, that entire portion of the convoy is no longer there.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, it's all gone.
	Let's continue walking over here so we see.
	So what does everyone else have to say in the chat?
	Danny Boy.
	Not Tommy Boy.
	Sorry.
	Tommy Boy is the...
	It's the cold, people.
	It's freezing my mouth and my brain.
	Danny Boy.
	Oh, Danny Boy.
	Okay, here we go.
	Yeah, so there was definitely...
	Oh no!
	Okay, they're still there.
	So there's more trucks.
	That's where they sectioned off the convoy the last time.
	Maybe we'll meander over there.
	Okay, there's nothing...
	There's certifiably...
	I suspect nothing until the other side of Gatineau.
	I don't know if they've closed this off.
	Wait, based on the car coming, they have not closed it off.
	Unless...
	Unless travel is restricted on it, either way.
	Yeah, an emergency.
	Gonna invoke the Emergencies Act.
	And by the way, appreciate the absolute idiotic hypocrisy.
	They're going to invoke, or the rumor is, that they're going to invoke the Emergencies Act because the interruption of the economy is a sufficient national emergency to invoke the Emergencies Act.
	Make sure that...
	Oh yeah.
	They're going to invoke the Emergencies Act, if the rumor is correct, because interrupting the economy is a sufficient national emergency to warrant invoking the Emergencies Act.
	They invoked the Emergencies Act provincially to paralyze the economy over the last two years.
	And so this is where you just have irreconcilable, mutually exclusive...
	Applications of one and the same law for purely political reasons.
	Can't interrupt the economy.
	What the Convoy is doing is a national emergency warranting the Emergencies Act.
	But we're going to shut down the economy, lock people in their homes, only allow essential services through emergency measures to deal with a public health emergency.
	yep Okay, we'll go down here because we haven't been here since day one.
	I don't know how much longer this is going to go on for, but also how much longer there will be anything of interest.
	I mean, how many people can we interview?
	How many people can we talk to?
	I think we've heard as many stories as we're going to hear.
	The information is out there for anybody who wants it.
	For any ignorant...
	Uninformed, ill-informed individual who still repeats the trope that this is a hate-filled, white nationalist movement convoy.
	The information is out there.
	Do I go there?
	Do I go there, people?
	Quickly.
	Do I go down further to the other section of the convoy, one, or do I go back to Parliament, two?
	Let's see what the chat says.
	Ontario lifting restrictions.
	Viva.
	Sorry.
	For caps, it was not an emergency.
	Oh, okay, it's going too fast.
	Do slow mode on your stream, sir.
	Yeah, I didn't set up slow mode.
	Can't do it now.
	How's it going?
	You good, David?
	Yes, sir.
	How you doing?
	I love your videos, man.
	We're live right now.
	Do you have any qualms by being on the internet?
	I'm not recording you.
	No, no, no.
	Let's see.
	Where are you in from, sir?
	I'm from Oakville, and the reason I'm here, I'm with my nephew.
	He has a rig right up by Parliament Hill.
	The reason I'm here, obviously, is to support them, to support our drive for freedom, true freedom.
	I'm here because my son got thrown out of university from being unvaccinated.
	My nephew, who taught at Fenstraw College in London, taught IT, he was sacked for not being vaccinated.
	His wife, a nurse, got sacked for...
	Not being vaccinated.
	So that's why I'm here.
	Well, sir, what do you have to say to the world who says just get vaccinated if you want to keep your job?
	It's all about freedom.
	My body, my choice.
	You know, anything that goes into your body has to be an informed decision, number one.
	And you cannot be coerced in order to do this.
	It goes against our human dignity.
	Thank you.
	God bless you.
	Thank you very much.
	Nice to meet you.
	Have a good one.
	It's a beautiful answer and it's a perfect answer.
	And then you can think of circumstances.
	You can think of hypotheticals where it's such a dire emergency.
	It's such a deadly situation.
	It's so effective and so clearly perfect that you could then maybe think about raising the argument that it could be compelled.
	But here's the spoiler.
	Once you've met all those criteria...
	You don't need to compel it because people would do it willingly.
	So that's it.
	So that's it.
	It's very cold.
	Very, very cold.
	Okay, so here we go.
	You can see now.
	Okay, we're here.
	We're going to go talk with them.
	I mean, that's the ultimate paradox.
	is the only hypothetical where you could in theory contemplate compelling something would be a situation so dire you would not have to convince anyone or compel them in the first place Yeah, we haven't been, so this was day one we came down here.
	And this is just already appreciates.
	These look like residential units.
	Traffic is absolutely unimpeded.
	A lot of green space here, actually.
	One day, one day, every one of their beautiful view is going to be interrupted with a building that's going to go up right here.
	Unless it's this designated green space that they can't develop.
	So, yeah, that's it.
	A lot of rumors in the chat, people.
	We're not getting into it.
	Go...
	You can have those discussions.
	Come to your own opinions.
	And that is that.
	Here we go.
	This is where the convoy has not moved from day one.
	The street that we're at is Booth.
	Booth Street.
	I'm getting out of the booth!
	Who in the chat is going to get that?
	I'm getting out of the booth!
	Oh, I want to see if anyone gets that.
	Who's going to get that reference?
	Is that a goose behind me?
	No, that's a bench.
	Okay, that will be...
	Oh, Adam Sandler!
	Someone got it!
	Tollbooth Willie, people!
	I'm getting out of the booth!
	Oh my goodness!
	You ran over Tollbooth Willie!
	Here's a box.
	Okay.
	That was the funniest piece of audio comedy ever.
	They're all gonna laugh at you.
	Adam Sandler.
	Childhood classic.
	And you felt like such a rebel for owning such filthy comedy.
	This was back when comedy could be funny.
	Not only did we have freedom of choice, we had freedom to have funny comedy.
	Okay, let's see what we got here.
	Oh, look who is here.
	Zoth.
	How you doing?
	Plugging hard and working hard.
	Working hard.
	How you doing?
	$12 yesterday.
	Amazing.
	How old are you?
	20. You're 20?
	Okay, now, Zod, do you mind being interviewed for the world?
	Yeah, sure.
	Okay, what did you do before your channel exploded into what it is?
	Like in life?
	Yeah, what are you doing in life in general?
	I'm enrolled into university, but I didn't take any courses because I...
	Here, come back here.
	Not that I don't trust traffic in general.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I was in university, but I didn't take any courses yet, so I still felt pretty young.
	I felt like I could have been able to do maybe something bigger than university.
	I don't know yet.
	But yeah, I'm still enrolled.
	I might go back whenever, you know.
	Enrolled in what?
	I'm in economics.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	And you know, YouTube's great.
	Showing you guys all this stuff is great.
	Viewer Phrase is a great man.
	And it's really crazy.
	It's all you guys watching.
	You guys have to come out here.
	Like, there's nothing you'll ever see like this.
	It's insane.
	The unity, everything.
	The amount of people, the energy, the love, and on, I don't know if you were here, last night, Friday, Saturday night?
	No, no, last night.
	I was here Saturday during the day, but I've been driving back and forth to Montreal.
	Yeah.
	Like, at night, there's just, there's so many parties and everything, and it's just so much.
	Like, you can really, when you're here, you feel the love, you know?
	Like, you just feel so much unity.
	Have you felt any hate yet?
	Um, towards me, no.
	I haven't seen any either.
	There was one girl.
	I interviewed, she was wearing a mask.
	She said that she received hate, but she could have been lying, who knows?
	That's the only person who said that.
	But in general, everyone's peaceful, everyone's calm.
	It's not at all like the way the media portrays it.
	And that's why you guys have to watch YouTube live streams, because that's where you really see the truth.
	You know, it's not, it's not sugar-free.
	Amazing.
	Godspeed.
	What's your, do we know your first name?
	Matt.
	When are you going to be live?
	Tell the world?
	Soon, soon.
	I'll be on all day, 12 hours.
	Alright, awesome.
	Thank you.
	Have a good one.
	Alright, that's funny.
	Zahn knows how to work the interwebs.
	Alright, let's see if we can get an interview with a trucker now.
	There's a port-a-potty here, which is good.
	There's a shovel next to the port-a-potty, which is bad.
	No, that's not bad.
	That's a joke.
	Here, you see we got a port-a-potty.
	or two Florida parties.
	Thank you.
	So, I don't know what direction we just went in.
	If this is the southern...
	Something smells so good.
	It's not the port-a-potty.
	It's a barbecue.
	Oh, gosh.
	I'm gonna fall on my nose.
	Oh, here we go.
	Look at this.
	Let's run this one by the fact-checkers.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Healthy people don't need to quarantine.
	Something smells so good.
	It's a barbecue, and it involves meat on the barbecue.
	This is beautiful.
	Okay, it might just be a barbecue.
	Oh, no, there's the meat.
	There's the meat side.
	Sir, may I video record those sausages?
	People, look at this.
	Vegans and vegetarians, trigger alert.
	Oh.
	Yes, sir.
	Oh, hold on.
	Actually, we need to hear that.
	The smell cannot be overestimated, overdescribed.
	Oh, what's down here?
	Oh my goodness.
	That smells amazing.
	Thank you.
	How's it going?
	We're going to do it in French and I'm going to translate it.
	Where are you from?
	From Ottawa.
	And you're here?
	We're here to do our visit.
	Not daily?
	Not daily, but regularly during the week.
	We want to encourage the world.
	We know that when the party isn't there, we have to get the morale of people.
	Absolutely.
	Especially when it's so cold and it's cold, but even...
	Even when it's so cold, the young people play at hockey.
	It's great to see it play hockey.
	It is amazing.
	Have you had bad experiences in the most?
	No, no, no.
	Because I thought it was funny the morning, I was going to take my first year at Duckport.
	We were in an insurrection here in Ottawa.
	And in addition, we were in an otage.
	I want to tell you, since the beginning, I find it so nice to be able to talk.
	So he said, Doug Ford said that, you know, the city has been taken hostage and it's never been a more pleasant experience.
	He's coming here to increase the morale because when the party goes down a little bit, you got to come back and increase morale.
	And let the truckers know that you still support them.
	So, we're at the end of this portion.
	The trains are still running on time.
	And I'll tell you one thing, by the way.
	It's so cold today, I've broken out my Swanee gloves.
	Now, Swanee mitts, for anybody who doesn't know, hashtag not an ad.
	They're mitts.
	And then inside they have the little finger gloves.
	So it's like a felt finger glove within the mitt.
	And they're very nice.
	But even still, my fingers are cold.
	Okay.
	It's more of the same.
	It's just beautiful.
	We'll walk back now.
	And hit Parliament Hill in terms of scheduling, not physically.
	And then we will go to the War Memorial, see if Spinney's there.
	And just continue talking.
	People have been...
	These trucks and these...
	That's a Winnebago or trailer homes.
	They've been here now for three weeks.
	Ben Dichter said three-week anniversary was on Sunday, I think.
	Check this out.
	TikTok Live, KCW, Freedom Convoy.
	That's a Batman flag by the looks of it.
	Yep, that's a Batman flag.
	And what do we got here?
	We're taking back what's ours.
	Time to go to the train station.
	Choo-choo, mother effa.
	Alright, well, I understood the first part of that.
	Time to go to the train station.
	Dude, I don't get that flag, but I understand we're taking back what's ours.
	Alright.
	Those sausages.
	It smelled like sweet, dripping bacon fat mixed with smoky fire and maple syrup.
	And I wanted one.
	I really wanted one, but I can't eat on camera.
	So growing up in high school, anecdote, story time.
	Let's do a...
	Oh, what's that guy's name?
	He did vines.
	Oh, I'll get his name in a bit.
	He did the best vines ever, and he did story time.
	Storytime in high school and growing up I could never look people in the eyes or I did not like looking people in the eyes.
	It made me feel very uncomfortable and I couldn't eat in front of people.
	So it made me very uncomfortable to eat in front of people as well.
	Two random facts which I've been holding out on for 10 days now of live streaming.
	Thanks for the glove shoutouts.
	Combiner008.
	I don't know if anyone has any affiliation with Swanee.
	I don't even know where I got these.
	I found them in a drawer in my parents' cottage.
	So I don't know who they belong to, but if any of my siblings are watching and they're yours, these gloves are mine now.
	Okay.
	So let's walk back.
	There's a little bit of traffic here.
	Don't exactly know why.
	Or how long it lasts for.
	But this is the main thoroughfare, Bank Street.
	Is it Bank?
	It is Bank Street.
	No, it's Booth Street.
	Sorry.
	Booth Street is still clear.
	And, you know, the street that we're looking at in front of us, where the cops have blocked it off, is, uh, is it called Wellington here?
	Uh, no, it's not called Wellington here, but it only leads up to Parliament, so...
	The idea that the Ottawa city itself is crippled...
	And overrun with traffic and totally unusable and paralyzed.
	I've been driving within two to three blocks of the convoy protest every time I come.
	Not only do I find a parking spot every time.
	I haven't once put money in the meter.
	And I haven't gotten a ticket yet.
	But yeah, I mean, there hasn't been any, as far as I know, any increase or excessive traffic in the city whatsoever.
	This idea that the city is under siege, it is just pure fake news of media outlets and politicians abusing of terminology and twisting the words of meanings of words or just using the words improperly.
	The city is not under siege.
	It's not an occupation unless you just want to bastardize and dilute what those words mean, which is what's been happening for the last little while anyhow.
	Call everyone a white nationalist.
	Call Ben Shapiro.
	A white nationalist.
	An orthodox Jewish man.
	Called Ben Dictor.
	I didn't know that he was Jewish until he mentioned it.
	Called the spokesperson.
	Called the convoy for which the spokesperson is a Jewish man.
	A white nationalist movement.
	I mean, you gotta be a special level of dishonest to do that.
	To even talk like that.
	I did not know that the co...
	The co-organizer was an indigenous woman.
	I didn't know these things.
	I just knew that walking the streets, calling this what the media has been calling it, it's just lies through and through.
	Oh, so let's get into the story, people.
	Can anyone remind me of what the...
	He did Vines, and they were great comedy Vines, and then he did them on YouTube.
	Oh, my kids would remember.
	And he did one called Storytime.
	He had got a great voice.
	They were all funny bits.
	If anybody remembers his name, I'm going to see it in a second.
	What's his name?
	It's a two-name name.
	First and last.
	Okay, whatever.
	Thomas Sanders, thank you.
	Yes!
	God darn, the internet is so good.
	Thomas Sanders Vines.
	Greatest things ever.
	They may not want shoutouts from an extreme right-wing dude.
	I'm being tongue-in-cheek.
	Thomas Sanders, hilarious stuff.
	And, um, the piano guy.
	Uh, Daniel Thrasher.
	Genuinely awesome comedy stuff.
	Like, totally not related to politics.
	Wonderful stuff.
	Okay.
	Shoutouts that the people may not have wanted the shoutout, but have been shouted out.
	Uh, what happened on Twitter?
	A doctor.
	By the way, the amount of Ontario blue checkmark doctors, MDs, that I've been blocked by are far too high.
	I've been blocked by that I know of.
	Maybe a dozen people that I know of.
	Patricia Arquette, which I think has to be a mistake because it has to be a mistake.
	Or maybe like what they say in those block lists.
	Brian Stetler recently, I discovered I was blocked by him.
	It's actually like my greatest...
	My greatest blue checkmark, block.
	And then doctors.
	A Liberal MP blocked me.
	And then doctors.
	Ontario doctors.
	And it's outrageous, but I see a tweet.
	I see a tweet from a...
	Situational Awareness 360.
	I see a tweet from a doctor.
	Says MD in her handle, blue checkmark, 30,000 followers, referring...
	Oh, and the tweet was to the effect of, if this were anything other than a white supremacist...
	Are you good?
	If this were anything other than a white supremacist blockade, the police would have already broken it up, taken care of it.
	And then I retweeted the tweet, saying, you're either ill-informed or lying.
	You either know what you're saying, In which case you're a liar, or you don't know what you're saying, in which case you're ignorant.
	And I posted one highlight.
	Then I responded to her tweet on her thread with four videos.
	Big Bull, the Haitian immigrant and the retired nurse who came out of retirement.
	Two people, two separate people.
	So the Haitian immigrant, Oxford comma, and the retired nurse who came out of retirement.
	The Kuwaiti driver who fled from Kuwait.
	And the individual's shoveling of the snow and ice off of the war memorial.
	And I said, boom, boom, boom, boom.
	And then, sure, sure.
	I mean, I should have predicted it, but it wouldn't have been so smart.
	Blocked.
	And I don't know if when I get blocked, I don't really care to see the person's tweets ever.
	I only saw that one.
	I just wonder if people can still see my responses to her dishonest and misinformation.
	I just hope people can see my responses.
	But people are so...
	They're so blinded by their foregone conclusions.
	They can literally see the video with their own eyes.
	And that video to them will be as exceptional as was the Confederate flag and the Yahtzee flag in reality was to the defining features of this convoy.
	That's where it gets really depressing.
	And I have friends who are living in this very same blinder where the more you try to make them understand that this convoy is about as intolerant as a grade of kindergarteners, the more you try to make them see that, the more they just dig their heels in, tighten up their blinders and put their head down and just say, that's exactly what a white supremacist would say.
	But it's nuts.
	So that's it.
	Spread the lies.
	Block the people when they get called out on their lies.
	It's the playbook.
	And then you really start to wonder.
	Everybody always says political operatives, paid yada yada, paid employees, plants, whatever.
	But you really have to wonder.
	This woman is purportedly a doctor.
	Blue checkmark.
	Can be so ignorant, so intolerant, and then above all else...
	So thin-skinned and fragile that being called a liar and having the evidence rubbed in your face is then an immediate cause not to reassess and re-inform, but to block and just plug ahead with the lie.
	And you've got to be really dedicated, really paid, or really ignorant to adopt that strategy in life.
	Alright.
	We're almost back here.
	It's Valentine's Day.
	Jeez, I gotta get back in time.
	I gotta exercise before dinner.
	You know, I'll tell you one thing also, by the way.
	As a lawyer, and I used to work...
	Despite what people think, I used to work long hours.
	But at Borden-Ladner-Gervais, you'd be working 10-12 hour days consistently.
	And on the weekends, you'd maybe work 4 or 5 hours.
	No matter what happened, I would find time to exercise.
	And I would say, I'm not gonna get into that position.
	Where I'm too busy to exercise because that's when things go downhill.
	Now, I do recognize that walking five to seven and a half kilometers while streaming, if it's not cardio, it's at least fat burning.
	But I haven't exercised in two days now, and that's when I start to get built up with the nervous energy.
	So I'm going to exercise before Valentine's Day dinner.
	And I think we're going to order sushi.
	Or something good.
	I don't know.
	Still not going to a restaurant.
	And my wife is totally, totally good with it.
	And we are on the same page.
	Before I turn around and just, we'll get back into the convoy.
	I think it was my parents who told me, but it's not their expression.
	A successful marriage is only a question of finding someone with whom you can go crazy.
	It's about finding someone to go crazy with for the rest of your life.
	So, with that awesome, people saying martial law in the crowd.
	What could be more martial law than what we've already lived through for the last two years?
	This will be less martial law than the curfews that we have in Quebec.
	Oh my goodness, Spitty!
	I said I was going to go to the memorial at the end.
	How you doing, brother?
	How you doing?
	What do you want to say to the world?
	Same old?
	Come down here and see it.
	That's all I can say.
	I put up a highlight of...
	It's beautiful.
	I don't live in Nova Scotia anymore.
	I'm going to move.
	Don't come try and find me.
	How are you doing?
	You getting everything okay?
	Yeah, I'm good.
	Let me see your hands for a second.
	Beautiful.
	Everyone's got to see what the hands of a working person look like.
	I mean, this is...
	My god, also, they're very good hands.
	Listen, my grandfather was 6 '4", and his brother was 6 '9".
	I'm one of the shorter of my male cousins.
	Are you guys 5 '10"?
	6 '5".
	5 '11", 3 quarters or something.
	That's good.
	With the boots on your back.
	Awesome.
	I'm going to head back.
	Yeah, please do, man.
	Keep getting the truth out.
	Thank you very much.
	Have a good one.
	All right.
	Well, I guess we won't see Spinny at the end, but we've seen him now, and then we're going to go to the memorial.
	Look what we got here.
	Strong and free.
	End mandates.
	Keep us glorious and free.
	And...
	Viva Tarantino.
	We're going to get the flag for full effect.
	It's going to drape.
	The wind's going to blow it as we go through.
	Oh, gosh!
	Jack my arm on the truck.
	Okay.
	Oh, would you look at that?
	They have flags that say F Trudeau.
	It's the most violent thing I've ever seen.
	By the way, you listen to...
	I listen to CJAD.
	It causes an ulcer in my stomach.
	How you doing, sir?
	Good.
	I'm going down.
	I'll put the CJAD rant on pause.
	All's good?
	All's good.
	I'm a resident in your riding.
	Oh really?
	And I will support you next time as well, if there is a next time.
	They won't do that.
	Spoiler alert, there may not be a next time that I run for office.
	I won't get through here.
	CJD, how's it going?
	Sir, you're plugging away?
	You're looking warm?
	You want to be on camera?
	Sure, I don't care.
	You've been here for a while?
	Um, 817.
	Oh man, you're sleeping in your car?
	My tent.
	Look at that, okay, that's beautiful.
	Can I see?
	This is a nice fishing tent, but we shall be going in.
	Make sure no one's naked in there.
	Oh, yes.
	Look at...
	Can I go in?
	Oh, absolutely.
	And there's nothing in there that would be compromising for the world to see.
	Uh, nope.
	Gotta double check.
	The internet, live internet is live for...
	Oh, this is so cool.
	Them to grow up in.
	The White Rose, t.me forward slash join the White Rose or joint key quit eros.
	So, I don't know what that is.
	Not an endorsement.
	I don't know what that is.
	But a relatively poignant message.
	Because...
	Speaking of what Matt just said, you know, like...
	Our next generation of kids are not even going to know what freedom was.
	I'll tell you one thing.
	My kids are going to know about it.
	Because they're going to get it back.
	And I'm going to tell them.
	But the idea that social distancing two meters, wearing a face mask, vaccine passports.
	I went to a fish concert.
	I don't know if I've already mentioned this.
	Sugarbush.
	I went to the fish concert in Sugarbush.
	And I'd say, based on activities that I was involved in at that time of my life, it had to be 1995.
	It was...
	There were 15,000 to 25,000 people there.
	It was like a Grateful Dead, obviously.
	Their performances were always very Grateful Dead-y in terms of how long they went on for, how many people were there.
	It was the most imprinting experience ever.
	And I still remember it.
	It was at the base of Sugarbush.
	Just, how's it going?
	Long time no see.
	You're hearing my fish head.
	Inception.
	He's listening to the story.
	Now he's going to hear the end of it.
	There was like 10-15,000 people shoulder-to-shoulder listening to Fish.
	And then I walked up about halfway up the ski hill and you could see the crowd, the heads, the stage, and it was the most surreal experience of my life.
	But our kids, like, they're gonna think that, you know, going to a rock concert is like a medical procedure where you need to show papers, be of a certain medical class.
	In order to have the privilege to mingle where we now know what we now know about all of this stuff.
	Do I go down or do I go...
	No, I'll go this way.
	There are going to be kids thinking, growing up, with their new normal.
	And it's going to be their normal because there's nothing new to compare it to.
	Adults wear masks.
	Social distancing.
	Parents can't pick up their kids in daycare.
	There's going to be kids growing up thinking that that is normal.
	Because that has now been their reality since they have had...
	Consciousness.
	And it's not anything anybody should ever think is normal to get used to.
	It's not a good thing.
	Do I do it?
	Do I do it?
	No.
	There's a little kid over here.
	Beautiful.
	So, let's see.
	We'll speak French in a while, please.
	Alright, we'll speak French and we'll translate it later.
	It's been two years since I've no right to access my children's school.
	So when we bring our children to school and when we come to them, We need to do it outside because we don't have the right to go to school.
	And it's not normal.
	I'm not sure that I would be invited to school after all that, even if the restrictions are lifted.
	And just the translation, for two years, we haven't been able to go into our kids' school.
	We drop them off outside, pick them up outside, and my joke was that I'm not sure that after this is all over, even if they lift the restrictions, the school may not invite me back in.
	Because I may or may not have had a, not an altercation by any means, but just a very polite disagreement with another parent who happens to be a doctor when I was asked to wear a mask outside while picking up the kids.
	And I said, why would I do that?
	Like, how far from the school do I have to be to not wear a mask?
	And that was, you know, that was my response.
	Humorously like that.
	But it's amazing how, how you doing?
	It's amazing how one experience of someone busy-bodying into your own literal physical existence is enough to sour a relationship.
	Where's the dog?
	Oh, it's still too cold.
	I don't think I'm ever bringing the dog.
	My excuse is going to be it's too cold, but I'm not bringing the dog.
	Oh yeah, so someone had asked last time, show some of the billboards on the Parliament fence.
	Hi!
	How you doing?
	Good.
	You're not on camera.
	Do you want to be on camera?
	Where are you from?
	I'm Montreal.
	I'm Saskatchewan.
	I'm one of the truckers.
	Do you want to talk?
	No.
	Some people don't want to be on camera if they get seen in Ottawa.
	So you're from Saskatchewan.
	You're with the convoy?
	I am.
	I'm with the convoy.
	I left on January the 24th.
	And January the 24th from Saskatchewan.
	Where have you been parked in this entire time?
	Some of the time at the Camp 88, but now I'm in prime location on Kent and Albert.
	So how does that work?
	Where are the various camps of the trucks?
	The Embrun area.
	Just because we couldn't all fit down here, you know, we were far, far away.
	So we're at Embrun and there was about 60 trucks there.
	And we're looking really cared for.
	And food and showers.
	Everybody has what they need financially, food-wise and shelter-wise.
	Yes, absolutely.
	You found him!
	He's been looking for you for a week!
	What do you have to say to the world before we end up?
	How has this experience been for you?
	It's been absolutely amazing and it's brought the world together.
	We're united and together we can move mountains.
	Awesome.
	Nice to meet you.
	Thank you very much.
	Sir, you don't mind being on the web?
	A big fan.
	Not at all a big fan.
	Where are you in from?
	Innisfail, Alberta.
	Innisfail, Alberta.
	You here with the convoy?
	No, we came in, we got in about a week ago.
	How did you?
	You drove?
	Yeah, with just about a half ton.
	You were the large inspiration to it.
	He watched you every day.
	Oh, I subscribed for a couple years.
	So you've been watching it?
	It inspired us.
	It resonated with us.
	We watched it.
	I had to work a few days, and we packed up the truck and left.
	How long a drive is that?
	3,600 kilometers.
	Shut up!
	Okay, by the way, just so everybody knows, I don't know how far Canada is coast to coast.
	That's almost as far as it can be.
	Unless you go coast to coast.
	Is it up north and you have to go south and then across?
	Yeah, we're about 100 kilometers north of Calgary.
	So down to Highway 1 and hanging left.
	And how long are you here for?
	As long as we can stay.
	So you do have a job to go back to?
	I do, but I have more holidays.
	Okay.
	Do I dare ask the policy question?
	No, I did not do any of the policy.
	No, we don't follow that.
	But we've been looking for you for days.
	I'm so happy.
	You're a hero.
	You're a hero.
	But a man with a camera.
	What are you guys doing for Valentine's Day?
	Excuse me, it's an express by change.
	I don't have anything.
	I'm sorry.
	So what are you guys going to do?
	First of all, where are you staying?
	We're out in a hotel.
	Okay, good, good, good.
	So that's it.
	So you'll have a nice romantic dinner and you'll come down and party tonight.
	Well, we're not allowed to go out to have dinner.
	You can do it.
	I'm allowed.
	I still refuse to do it.
	But you can do it.
	My wife would do it.
	Just eat in the car, which is very, very romantic.
	Well, actually, we have a barbecue that we brought.
	Some of her are just barbecues and burgers on our tailgate.
	That's fantastic, yes.
	You're awesome.
	Amazing.
	Keep it up.
	Keep it up.
	Thank you.
	I'm so glad to see you.
	He almost walked right by you.
	I'm easy to walk by.
	You know what you're looking for.
	He was fantastic.
	I said, hey!
	It's fantastic.
	And I promised too many Quebecois to work on my French.
	Oh, okay.
	He's going to work.
	Sorry.
	I promise.
	Amazing.
	Thank you.
	Oh, yeah.
	Please, go for it.
	Because I know you've seen a dog.
	Oh gosh, we're going to see...
	It's going to be another American bulldog, I think.
	Oh, sorry, it's Nick.
	Oh, sorry, I don't want to see anything on your phone.
	No, no, it's fine.
	I don't have anything that's...
	I just wanted to show you the picture that my son sent me.
	This is what I'm missing at home.
	Save my two dogs.
	My cat and my 24-year-old son.
	This is what our inspirations are being here, too.
	Yeah.
	We miss our dogs, but we'll see.
	That's it.
	Amazing.
	Thank you very much.
	My pleasure, my pleasure.
	Have a good one.
	If you wanna delete people for sharing freedom and peace, love and unity, like that platform is gonna go down so quick.
	It was $250 billion in Facebook.
	That's the only reason.
	And then you know what?
	I think there's a new one called Truth Platform coming out.
	Donald Trump or whatever.
	I mean, even if you don't like Donald Trump, as long as you learn truth and you can say the truth, I'll be over there and so will everybody else.
	So how you doing, Rob?
	Braveheart, how you doing?
	Are you a YouTuber?
	Yes, I am.
	We're live right now.
	We got almost 20,000.
	Say it.
	Freedom!
	I met the best damn roofer.
	Best damn roofer here.
	I'm all the way from Niagara.
	And I'm coming here.
	I sold my Muskoka property.
	I got a bank full of money.
	And I got a fucking loud voice.
	And I'm going to be screaming freedom until they drop the mandates or until they put me in jail for publicly protesting.
	Peacefully.
	They probably want to do that.
	Nice to meet you.
	Go for it.
	Freedom!
	That would explain why your throat is sore, man.
	Keep it up.
	Freedom!
	That's fantastic.
	Sir, how's it going?
	I don't want anything.
	I just want to show what is here for everyone.
	This is like cookies, coffee, hand warmers.
	Thank you.
	A lot of love.
	A lot of love.
	Cheery.
	That's Froot Loops.
	Oh, the soup smells good.
	Darn it, the soup smells good.
	One day, I'm going to come and not livestream, and I'm going to eat something.
	I'm going to eat so much.
	I'm going to puke.
	I'm going to eat sausages, stew, drink coffee.
	I'm going to skip breakfast.
	That's what I'm going to do.
	I'm going to skip breakfast one day.
	And then I'm going to come down here.
	I don't know what to do.
	I'm going to do a cooking video.
	And I'm going to compare...
	No, I won't compare the food.
	But I'm going to skip breakfast one of these days.
	Next time.
	And eat that...
	Hey, how's it going?
	See, I'm recognizing similar...
	Oh, that's what I said I was going to do.
	I'm recognizing faces.
	Someone had said...
	I don't remember where.
	It was in the chat.
	They want to see the signs on the fence.
	So what I'm going to do...
	You may or may not find this interesting.
	I'm going to turn the camera around.
	And then read the signs that are here.
	Do you want to say hi to the Internetwebs as well?
	Sure, I'd like to say hi to you.
	Where are you in from?
	Bruce County.
	So are you coming for the day or have you been in for a few days?
	Coming for a few days.
	How do you find it?
	Oh, it's amazing.
	It's amazing.
	Yeah, and I've been watching your livestreams and just loving it and getting a real sense of air.
	And now you're here with family.
	Three kids.
	I have four kids.
	Four kids!
	My pleasure, my pleasure.
	See you soon.
	So I'm going to read these signs and then I may give commentary.
	Trudeau, WEF, flee home to Davos.
	We see you.
	By the way, everyone should look up who in the, not just the Liberal Party, but in the Canadian government are on or related to the WEF.
	It's kind of crazy.
	Jagmeet Singh, Chrystia Freelander, and I don't know if they're on the trustees, and I don't know what their roles are exactly, but there are far too many Canadian politicians with affiliations to the World Economic Forum that could cause a reasonably cynical person to question where their loyalties lie.
	Do their loyalties lie to the nation that they represent or to a global community that might not be so interested with our national interests?
	How's it going?
	Do you mind being on the webs?
	Yes, it is.
	Not a problem.
	Okay.
	Saskatoon, if I may ask the obvious question, what brought you here?
	You and Lauren.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	We've been glued to the screen since the convoy started.
	It is.
	Even when I'm not streaming, I'm still watching some of the other guys streaming.
	Has it not been the most amazing thing you've ever seen?
	It is.
	I have to be down here.
	What we see with you and the whole thing, that's what it's like.
	It is.
	All the goodwill and freedom for choice.
	Oh, I tell you, that's so important.
	You guys are born and raised in Canada?
	Saskatoon.
	And parents-wise?
	Yes.
	No, no, I didn't want to say that.
	How many generations in Canada?
	Lots.
	And in your lifetimes, have you ever seen anything like this?
	No.
	This is so important.
	I don't think people realize that we are losing our freedoms.
	People become way too complacent.
	And this is a wake-up call.
	Thank goodness.
	We need it.
	Fantastic.
	Thanks.
	Nice to meet you.
	So good to meet you.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Have a good one.
	Look at the Canadian politicians who are affiliated with the WEF in particular.
	There's a meme out there.
	There's like over a dozen.
	Just double-check each and individual one.
	But just Google Jagmeet Singh World Economic Forum.
	Google Chrystia Freeland World Economic Forum.
	And then come to your own conclusions as to what it means, if anything.
	But just know that it's the case before coming to conclusions.
	So this says, Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
	One for all and all for liberty.
	God save Canada.
	I don't want a Fauci juice to play soccer.
	Thank you, truckers, for fighting for my freedom.
	Enough is enough.
	We've got one.
	You're putting up one here.
	It says, exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
	Desmond Tutu.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you, truckers.
	How you doing?
	Oh, you got good gloves, too.
	Oh, yes, and I got more.
	Would you like a roll?
	Mentos, have I never said no to this?
	I'm going to have this.
	This will keep me up on the dry home.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, you too.
	Thanks.
	Mentos, the fresh mica.
	And those are the, um, those are like, they look like grape ones.
	All right, this one says, nous avons, uh, nous avons besoin de respirer librement.
	We need to be able to breathe freely.
	We are proud to be Canadians.
	Love, support, peace, sharing and liberty.
	Freedom for Canada.
	Stop mandatory Fauci juicing.
	I'm going to keep doing that just because it's really gross.
	Thank you, truckers.
	We love you, truckers.
	I'm just going to walk slowly and maybe stop talking.
	Garbage bag filled with garbage.
	That these insurrectionist protesters have been making sure to keep off the streets.
	God save, oh God heal our country.
	Dieu guérit notre pays.
	God heal our country.
	Stop.
	This is clearly written by a kid and I think that's the purpose of it.
	It says stop mandates.
	Stop.
	Please.
	That says, uh, police.
	I mean, I'm not saying that to be glib.
	I mean, that's a kid.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Thank truckers.
	Oh, Canada.
	Okay.
	Medic, okay.
	Uni, so there's a portion of that.
	So, I mean, it's amazing.
	I mean, it just doesn't end.
	I want to grow up.
	In a free country.
	How's it going?
	I want to grow up in a free country.
	Muzzles are for dogs.
	Police watch join Freedom Team.
	That's the real thing.
	If and when the police say we're not doing what we just saw them doing in Windsor yesterday.
	Once the police say enough is enough.
	You like to wish that maybe they'll say, we're not doing this anymore.
	Not arresting protesters.
	Not enforcing these mandates.
	Fully loaded with hope.
	Justice for Justin.
	Go truckers.
	Thank you for fighting for us.
	And it just goes on.
	Freedom is essential.
	Imagine these politicians.
	Have not missed the paycheck in all of this.
	They were already filthy wealthy to begin with.
	And ask yourself how that happens.
	Separate issue.
	Ask how they get so filthy wealthy in the first place but haven't missed the paycheck while protecting us.
	Protecting us.
	All right, look at this.
	I was like, "Oh, you're older game." Yeah, you can fly.
	No, that's what I'm saying, because you can take shots.
	All right.
	You can tell me when you're gone.
	That's the point.
	Is there a car?
	Oh, so there's police up there.
	There's people in there.
	Okay.
	You're great.
	How you doing?
	Man, I watch your videos all the time.
	You want to be in one?
	Sure.
	What do you say to the world?
	Peace and love from Ottawa.
	Are you local?
	And how has this been?
	It's amazing.
	I lost something for this country years ago and this is completely different.
	I didn't think Canadians would come together like this.
	I didn't think so much peace and love and unity existed in this country.
	I hope the rest of the world gets to see a bit of this and it spreads to you too.
	I don't know if anyone's going to hear anything over the phone.
	I met you last week.
	Oh yeah, I remember.
	Here we go.
	Hey, I've got to get a picture of him with you.
	Alright.
	How you doing?
	How's your brother doing?
	How's your brother doing?
	He's good.
	He's good.
	Didn't get arrested.
	Thank you.
	Thanks very much.
	My pleasure.
	My pleasure.
	We're going to go away from that drum.
	I don't know what that drum sounds like through the phone.
	The mic can only pick up on so much of the deep bass.
	But when they bang on that drum, I can feel it in my chest.
	All right, now we're walking back towards the center part.
	Oh, a message I think we should all be appreciating right now.
	CBC.
	Can you imagine how much different the world would be if the media did its job?
	I guess I should specify that.
	How you doing?
	You want to say hi to the world?
	Alright, what do you have to say?
	Hi!
	Where are you guys in from?
	For Bonten, Ontario.
	How far away is that?
	About five and a half hours.
	Are you down for the day, the weekend?
	We were here for yesterday and today.
	And you're going back tonight or tomorrow?
	Two hours.
	Pretty much right after the verdict here.
	5.30, the vote.
	Say it loud, what's the vote on?
	I don't know exactly, but...
	The mandates on the back.
	It's going to be if they're dropping the mandates, federal mandates or not.
	Oh, really?
	But then Trudeau is supposed to be coming on to the...
	Trudeau?
	Oh!
	Is the Pope Trudeau supposed to be coming out and speaking to the congo?
	No, not the congo.
	He's making a speech at 4:30.
	So they're here.
	The people are actually here doing their jobs in Parliament itself.
	Yeah, apparently so.
	Well, I might have to stick around for a few more hours then.
	I don't want to take a picture.
	Let's see, we've got a sign here.
	That's awesome meeting you.
	Awesome.
	Thank you for all your work.
	Thank you very much.
	Enjoy.
	We'll see what happens with the news.
	Sir, how are you doing?
	Another man with a Canadian flag on a hockey stick.
	This is the icon of freedom right now.
	It's a hockey stick Canadian flag.
	How are you enjoying this?
	Loving it.
	Loving it.
	I'm so proud of our truckers and all the people here.
	And yeah, just what a blessing for people.
	Have you heard any news?
	No, I mean, I'm detached from the internet when I'm on my phone streaming, so I'm following the chat.
	If anyone in the chat knows any news, real news, not rumors, put it in there so we can see.
	So apparently there's going to be a vote.
	If the vote's going to be on the mandates or whether or not to invoke the emergency.
	Whether or not to invoke the emergency.
	We might see some real drama this afternoon if they say no.
	If they say no, that's the end of Trudeau.
	If they say no, end of Trudeau.
	So hold on.
	We've been live for two hours and 20 minutes.
	Started live at about 12.45.
	So it's now...
	Is it 3.50?
	Okay so we're gonna see I don't know if I'm gonna be in the car on the way home we'll see how long we can go for I do need to get I do I do need to get home for Valentine's Day oh the smells when you're hungry hold on right now it looks like I have the weirdest hairdo ever okay here let's just see this more There's a lot more Bristol Board things.
	I'm not going to read that one.
	Open debate don't dictate.
	Oh, sorry.
	That's not how Canadian government works anymore, whoever made that one.
	Thank you, truckers.
	How's it going?
	Thank you, brother.
	Stealing gas from truckers is legal, but buying it for them is illegal.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know what?
	We're going to talk about a big story that Rebel News just put out yesterday.
	Rebel News, Ezra Levant, David Menzies.
	Isabel, I forgot her last name, Alexa Lajoie, or is it Lavoie?
	I'm forgetting.
	I'm getting mixed up.
	Doesn't matter.
	Rebel broke a story yesterday that basically they've got a voice recording of a police officer, I don't know if it's RCMP or Provincial Police, confirming that they disabled an excavator, not a tractor.
	I was corrected by the chat or corrected by Twitter.
	They disabled an excavator.
	They confirmed that they disabled three excavators, and then apparently the video footage of how they disabled the excavators involved clipping solenoid cable battery things, like putting, I don't know what they do, but really, some would say disable, others would say vandalize.
	And I don't know how you get a truck like that back, or an excavator like that back in operation, but RCMP, chat's saying RCMP.
	V is for Viva.
	That could be a shirt.
	So anyways, Rebel News has a voice recording of the guy relatively unabashedly saying, we can confirm that we disabled three excavators.
	So unless it's somebody who didn't know what he was talking about, made up the story that he didn't know what he was saying, it's kind of a big story that the government is surreptitiously vandalizing trucks, excavators, whatever.
	And by the way, they had apparently asked them.
	Whoever owned the excavators to park them far away from the highway so that they wouldn't be visible from the highway for whatever reason.
	Ostensibly so it would be easier for them to vandalize them.
	Disable them.
	Alright.
	Now we're gonna have audio issues because of this song.
	How do I mute?
	Maybe I'll just mute for a second.
	By the way, it's so irritating that these copyright trolls literally Claim the video.
	Because you have background incidental music that's barely audible.
	And it proves to be a big pain in the neck.
	We're going to go see the Terry Fox Memorial.
	Didn't see that the last time.
	Here we go.
	Fight for our rights.
	Till death or rapture.
	Truckers for freedom.
	We are not rats.
	Stop tyranny.
	Now we're gonna go to the Terry Fox, to the Terry Fox Memorial.
	Make sure it's still intact, respected, and it looks beautiful again.
	Here, check it out.
	There it is.
	Looking good.
	More food over here.
	Bars, juice.
	Oh, look at the stew.
	Let me see what this smells like.
	Oh, it smells so good.
	It smells so good.
	Alright, we're gonna make our way over to the War Memorial and then figure out what to do.
	So 3:15 and there's supposed to be a vote.
	Chat, when is the vote supposed to occur?
	Does anyone know for sure?
	Not rumors and not whatever.
	Block and conservatives voting yes to end mandates.
	Is that in...
	Okay, hold on.
	Let me go here.
	People in the chat.
	Are they voting?
	Is the vote, for those of you who know, to end the mandates or to invoke the Emergency Measures Act?
	Or both?
	If anybody knows, please let us know now.
	And, um, we'll see.
	I'm totally disconnected while we're doing this.
	Which is ironic.
	My only connection to news and the internet is...
	Everybody watching.
	How many are we on Rumble, for anybody who's watching on Rumble?
	I can't.
	The comments are not integrated with StreamYard, so I can't see them here.
	People are saying, uh, emergency.
	Trudeau is scared now.
	Trudeau has been scared for two weeks.
	That's why he hasn't been engaging.
	Because he has, he's got no way to engage in this.
	He's, because he's such, I don't want to say an idiot.
	He's set it up that he has no way out of this.
	He has no way out of this because the only way out of it for him is an implausible out.
	It would be an unfeasible out, which would be like a total crushing of the rebellion.
	So he's really just, he's just, what's the word?
	Not invoked, but utilized every tool that he has at his federal disposal, which is a bot media, censorship online.
	Blue checkmark amplification of nonsense, which has propagated itself by the fake news that they subsidize.
	They've been using all of that ammunition.
	But it's had some impact.
	Some people, I think, have potentially been swayed by it.
	But you can fool some people some of the time and some people all of the time, but I screwed that up.
	You know what I'm saying.
	Okay.
	No camping.
	No camping.
	Declare a state of emergency.
	What is this?
	Oh, look at that.
	The Eskimo Quickfish GI.
	I'd like to know how long it takes to set this thing up.
	And here we got the war memorial that had been fenced off for, I believe, eight days, nine days.
	And what is this?
	What is this vandalism here?
	Those are leftover flower petals.
	Look at this.
	That's it.
	Beautiful memorial.
	We haven't actually been up to it.
	So it says, I hope you can see this.
	It says, here lie the remains of Canada's unknown soldier.
	Please treat this grave with respect.
	And we'll just walk around it to see how it has in fact been respected.
	Probably more so than it is in normal times.
	Hey, how you doing?
	Absolutely.
	It's a little cold.
	Oh, sorry guys.
	How's it going?
	My fingertips are getting there.
	Your fingertips are so cold that your phone's not registering them.
	Thank you.
	My pleasure.
	How's it going?
	Good.
	I'm back to the warm one.
	They took down the fence last time I was here, and now I'm just doing the 360, making sure it's still clean for the entire world to see in real time.
	Have a go, man.
	February 2022.
	You fought for our freedom.
	I came here to support our freedom and to stand united.
	Love, peace, and respect for Canada and the world.
	That looks like Angela.
	And then...
	Any other messages we can read here?
	So, I'm just going to walk around.
	There's a rose here.
	I mean, this is...
	I get angry.
	I mean, I just really get angry every time it comes back up.
	This is what people think has been desecrated, vandalized by the convoy.
	Spinney, the gentleman with the majestic beard that we saw at the far end, has been sitting here shoveling the snow with other veterans, keeping watch over this.
	And the media comes out and says that the protest, the Hey, Piva.
	How are you doing?
	I wanted to...
	My channel got struck and I can't scream for a week.
	Oh, uh, you want to be on the webs?
	Sure.
	We've met before, right?
	Yeah, man.
	Okay.
	Oh, okay.
	I've got like 7K.
	I've got 7,000 followers.
	Not as popular as this guy.
	No, no, no, no.
	Tell the world what happened.
	Uh, no, so, uh, I was streaming.
	I've been here.
	I've got like 7,000 followers.
	Mac?
	I remember now.
	Not as big as Viva Frey or OttawaX, but I'm a little guy.
	I'm here.
	So I've been streaming every day and I got like 30 emails from people that follow me and they're like, why are you not streaming?
	And I've been trying all day, but YouTube actually gave me two strikes.
	One a warning and a strike.
	Not just live stream, but I saved the highlight.
	You know you can highlight and save?
	It was unlisted.
	So they gave me a strike for a video that was not even posted.
	Was it a copy strike or a content?
	It was a content, medical misinformation.
	Un-effing believable.
	And honestly, it was funny.
	Come walk with me so we can get away from the noise a little bit.
	And come on this side here.
	Okay, so medical misinformation.
	Yeah.
	And we'll walk a little bit more into the sun so I can try to warm up my fingertips.
	What, do you know what the, don't say the words.
	Don't get my sound.
	Was it an interview with a person?
	No.
	It was one of the doctors was in the background and it was when there was a guy.
	Giving speeches?
	No, it was a replay of a guy talking.
	Was it Dr. Francis Christian by any chance?
	I don't know if it was.
	But then there was also, and then I got a video of the premiere.
	That was this way.
	Yeah, sorry.
	I'm trying to keep the mic away from the noise.
	Okay.
	Yeah, so it was...
	It was the guy on the screen, and he was in the background.
	I wasn't even focused on it.
	The noise of him was in the background.
	And so I was trying to do it on Rumble, but I'm having problems on the app.
	What are you using?
	I'm using Rumble.
	We're live on Rumble, live on YouTube, through StreamYards.
	So shut up.
	Mackjohn, M-A-K-J-O-N.
	Did you file an appeal?
	Yeah, and in like 30 seconds they got back, and they were like, nope.
	It was like automated almost.
	Are you on Twitter?
	No.
	I was very anti-social media.
	I did just start a TikTok and an Instagram.
	Get on Rumble.
	And Rumble, if you're watching, get on Twitter.
	I have a Rumble, and it's actually the exact same.
	Here it is, it's Mackjohn, all one word.
	Okay, so Mackjohn, M-A-K-J-O-N on Rumble.
	And I was trying to actually...
	You may not be able to livestream.
	I don't know what the criteria are for livestreaming.
	You have to buy into it, and I did.
	And I was doing it on the app, but the app was not giving me an option.
	And then I was doing it through the online, and it let me do a livestream, but it wouldn't connect to my camera.
	So I was out here doing the old-fashioned YouTube where I'm like, "Oh, I'll record it." I can't record posts or anything for a week.
	I can't even tell my followers what's happening.
	I don't have other social media.
	I had about 30 people email me though.
	It was very nice of my followers to be concerned about me because they're like, "Oh, did you get arrested?
	Did you?" It was cool.
	It's like 2008 for me right now.
	I'm walking around just recording video.
	No chat.
	No one talking.
	Fucking blown out here.
	I was trying to find you and normally I could find you quick because my followers I'd be like, where is Viva?
	Where is this guy?
	And then tell me.
	So I've been walking around for an hour trying to run into you or somewhere, Ottawa.
	So everybody, you know it now.
	And hold on.
	Everyone, hold on.
	I don't have a card.
	I don't have a card.
	My fingers are so...
	Here, hold this for one second.
	Where are you from, Rich?
	Montreal.
	I'm more Canadian.
	Je habite dans le Montréal maintenant.
	J 'ai de manger pour femmes.
	Alright, MacJump.
	So here's the deal.
	Your channel is still up.
	Yeah.
	So, everyone can go to Mac John, get the handle, and then tweet it out to YouTube.
	What is it?
	Team YouTube.
	Yeah.
	And apparently, I have not verified or vetted this information.
	What we're being explained is that the channel has been taken down.
	Not down, it's a strike.
	Sorry, got a strike so you can't upload a live stream for a week.
	Yeah.
	Because in the background, a doctor was giving a speech at the convoy.
	And he was giving a speech or it was a replay of an older speech?
	It was a replay.
	And then yesterday, the one I got strike for, I was just watching the speeches and I was highlighting them.
	And actually, I think it was one speech, a little bit of a doctor.
	My plan was to actually do a reaction to it and search his facts.
	So maybe I could have been even going against him because I wanted to talk to maybe another doctor to be like, "What do you think of this guy saying this?" And it would have been content that the left would have maybe liked or something.
	So I'll invite everybody who's on Twitter to do this.
	That's the story.
	You can clip this piece, tweet it out to Team YouTube, and ask if this makes sense so that MacJong can get back to documenting in real time.
	It wasn't even posted or anything.
	Like, I did it for the sake of downloading later.
	And no one's seen it.
	I had a very similar experience because when I was testing a live stream, I tested it with a Dude Perfect video.
	Unlisted, I was the only one watching it.
	Algorithmically, it got picked up and I got a warning and they finally removed the warning.
	Because I explained the whole situation, but it took a long time.
	What are we in here?
	Two hours, 34 minutes.
	Guys, clip this section.
	The one minute.
	Tag Team YouTube and try to get them to help.
	This guy's very nice.
	Thank you.
	I'm in Montreal, so I wouldn't mind to exchange.
	I'll try and email you.
	Yeah, you'll find me.
	I commented on three of your videos.
	Who are you?
	Viva!
	You want to say hi?
	You're on the internet.
	How are you, man?
	You want to be on the internet?
	Yeah.
	My name is Mark.
	Mark, look, he's got the frost of freedom.
	The freedom frost.
	I've been on here a while.
	You're in a very thin jacket.
	My fingertips are freezing off.
	No, you know what?
	This is a heated jacket.
	No way.
	I don't have the battery in it right now.
	But I have a big battery to charge my phone.
	So are you streaming?
	I was streaming.
	But I only streamed for one hour because my battery went dead.
	And I got this huge Milwaukee battery, but it's not working out well.
	What were you streaming to?
	YouTube.
	What's your channel?
	Bacon Ranch.
	Bacon?
	Bacon Ranch.
	B-A-C-O-N.
	Bacon Ranch, people.
	And what is the nature of your content?
	Well, mostly I do homesteading stuff, firewood.
	I have a firewood business.
	I was in Winnipeg and I moved to Green Valley, about halfway to your home, about three years ago.
	And, uh, fed up with stuff, stuff to come out and support, and I've been trying to livestream for a while.
	Finally found an app that would allow me to do it without 1,000?
	What are you using?
	StreamYard?
	Pyramid, is it?
	Okay, well, you can use...
	StreamYard's good.
	StreamYard?
	Yeah, oh, no, because you need it if you, uh...
	So you're on a platform, not YouTube, because you don't have, uh...
	Yeah, I had to get another app to get up to 1,000 subs.
	So you're on YouTube, you are Bacon Ranch.
	I was looking for you.
	How you doing?
	Amazing.
	I was looking for you too.
	Thank you so much.
	My pleasure, my pleasure.
	It's great to have the truth unvarnished.
	I was recording a global news team when I got here about an hour ago, and the guy was tentative about doing an interview, and he did.
	And a lot of people were commenting he shouldn't have done it.
	But I'm filming them as well.
	And it seemed like it was pretty tame.
	So it'll be interesting to see what they do with us.
	Awesome.
	Thank you, Viva.
	Nice to meet you.
	Take care.
	Thank you, you too.
	All right, sir.
	Hold on.
	I'm just trying to get my fingertips.
	My fingertips are getting to the very, very cold region.
	So where are you from?
	Do you have any?
	I think I'm only out here for another hour.
	I'm from Drayton Valley, Alberta.
	Draytonville?
	Drayton Valley.
	Drayton Valley, Alberta.
	World oil capital of the world.
	What do you do for a living?
	I'm actually an operator for oil and gas, but I can't work right now because of the mandates.
	Because through OH&S, the big oil companies have gone with a backdoor mandate, and that's why with Kenny saying that the mandates can still be used by companies that allow...
	I don't want to name all the oil companies, but they won't hire you unless you've got the vaccine.
	So I haven't had a job since September, and it just keeps on.
	Every time I go in for an interview, it's just, do you have a vaccine?
	What are you doing to make ends meet right now?
	Just living off savings.
	Just a good thing I had savings.
	Yeah, that's why I'm here until these mandates are done.
	But yeah, I've been following you.
	I'm actually a subscriber to your channel.
	Is that possible?
	Well, apparently we might have some news today, so we'll see if it's either progress or regression.
	What's your name?
	Aaron.
	Aaron?
	Nice to meet you.
	I can't take my gloves off.
	I feel like a little sissy, but it's freaking cold.
	Yeah, there's supposed to be something at 3?
	Yeah, I voted 3.34.
	I'm getting some mixed answering in the chats, but there's going to be news, people, so we'll see.
	All right, well, it's good meeting.
	The same, the same.
	Have a good one.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Can I get a selfie?
	Absolutely.
	Just real quick.
	My nose is so red.
	I know, my hands are shaking.
	All right.
	Selfie, buddy.
	We've spoken before.
	Have we met each other yet or no?
	I don't think so.
	Absolutely.
	Where are you both from?
	We came from Regina, Saskatchewan.
	Regina, Saskatchewan.
	How far drive is that?
	$27,000.
	$2,600.
	Okay, 2,700 kilometers.
	That's a fair waste.
	How long have you been here for?
	We got here on Saturday.
	It was actually Saturday.
	We left Thursday.
	We got here on Saturday.
	Of this week?
	Yeah.
	Okay, how long are you staying?
	Undetermined.
	Nice.
	We laid some plans because we should only go for a week, but things are up in the air, right, with what's going on.
	They have those votes today, those meetings.
	Do they need us on the ground?
	We're kind of going to play it by ear and do what needs to be done.
	What do you do?
	If I may ask, what do you do for a living?
	I'm unemployed now.
	I got laid off from Sassbauer.
	I got fired.
	And I don't ask the personal question, policy reasons?
	Yeah.
	Can everybody appreciate how many people we've spoken to now who have lost their jobs because of these policies?
	I would never ask.
	It's none of my business.
	It's none of my business.
	So you get your own unpaid administrative leave?
	No, I haven't received any unemployment since November last year.
	And then it'll all be out.
	Whether I get back pay for that or not, that's what we're holding, right?
	But I might not even get that.
	So I was just living off of my savings.
	And then I decided to fundraise a little bit.
	There's a couple of people that support and watch what I'm sharing.
	Where are you fundraising?
	I don't want to say GoFundMe, but is it on another platform?
	Oh, absolutely not that garbage.
	Not that anybody should ever use GoFundMe again.
	They shouldn't.
	Where can people support if they want to help you?
	Buy me the coffee and...
	BuyMeACoffee.com /KimBorma I believe it's under.
	BuyMeACoffee.com /KimBorma B-O-R B-O-E B-O-E R-M-A R-M-A B-O-E-R-M-A I'm also on Facebook as Kimberly Ann and all my links are there too.
	This is not an endorsement or betting.
	I have not done any verification or due diligence, but this is the question.
	A lot of people, whether or not they've set up, nobody should set up a GoFundMe.
	Lose the term like Google.
	They should set up a Give, Send, Go or I don't know what BuyMeACoffee is.
	Buy me a coffee.
	B-O-E-R-M-A.
	Nailed it, man.
	Nailed it.
	Sir?
	Oh, again, for the sun, it'll go a little better.
	And so you guys, are you staying in an hotel or are you staying in a hotel?
	We're staying in his truck.
	Amazing.
	I actually ended up at a friend's condo last night because he just found us on the side of the road and he was renting.
	He's literally bringing everybody together.
	I don't know him.
	I drove across the country.
	We stay at the night with random new friends.
	It's uniting everybody.
	It's bringing everyone together.
	It's kind of great because I'm finding my real people.
	I'm finding my soul tribe.
	It's really amazing.
	Sleeping in a vehicle some nights.
	Can't even talk.
	It's really cool.
	People have to appreciate how cold it is.
	It's cold and it's windy now.
	And how amazing though.
	We're still out here.
	You can't stop Canadians.
	This is Canadian camping, right?
	It's still cold.
	It's not going to stop us.
	Derek has a great story.
	Derek, what's your story?
	I don't know.
	Where do you want to start?
	Let's start on the other side of the road so we can get the sun.
	Hold on.
	Am I going to pick it up?
	It's a quarter, people.
	I'm going to leave it for somebody else.
	I can't do it.
	It's not worth it.
	It's going to stick to my fingers.
	My voice is gone.
	Let's get the angle.
	I like the sunlight here.
	What's your story?
	Start from the beginning.
	How much did you weigh when you were born?
	Actually, I was premature.
	I was a premature baby, but let's fast forward here.
	So I want to say this.
	I have never met this person in my life until actually a couple days ago that I met through a friend that I haven't seen in 10 years.
	And I want to say that I gave up.
	Just like a lot of that.
	So I'm Afghan vet.
	Very proud.
	Very proud.
	That's why I'm here.
	When I saw our government, literally...
	Allow $87 billion.
	Like, they didn't even say anything.
	Like, we're in Afghanistan, and next thing you know, the Taliban are the fifth largest air force in the world.
	I'm just saying that affected me.
	All COVID, everything affected me.
	I gave up.
	It wasn't until the truckers that actually rolled through Regina, and I went to it.
	I got out of my house, and my little, my sadness and feeling sore for myself.
	I got out, I went to it, and then I was like, I'm going to go join this thing.
	I drove out of Regina, I joined the convoy, and it took me five hours to get back to where I was.
	And I was like, what the heck?
	So, then I just kind of like, man, I gotta do some.
	I saw, obviously, the truckers coming up here.
	I'm like, I have to go.
	And then I actually ended up reaching out, and that's where it started, where I ended up talking to a friend and seeing them at the protest, where he got me in connection with her, where she went with a guy that she's never met, where, you know, from a buddy that I haven't seen in 10 years, and next thing you know, there's four other carloads that are leaving on different days from Regina and surrounding area to come here.
	Because it's all people that it doesn't matter.
	It's not anti-vax.
	Like, I'm not anti-vax.
	Like, I went to school, seven classes with a paramedic.
	I have my own business now, but, like, I'm not anti-vax.
	I'm anti-COVID-vax, and I'm anti-mandate.
	Freedom, we start here, and then we go down, and then we can go at the other values.
	Ultimately, why people died, why millions of people in the world died in World War I and World War II, was to start off at that level of freedom.
	And then the other thing is we go, so if someone wants to get the vaccine or not, you know, you shouldn't have to be forced to do it.
	And that's why I'm here.
	What did you do in the military?
	So, I was Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, so I was front lines.
	Yeah, so there's a Western Canadian Infantry Regiment for Canada.
	To be honest, I just wanted a picture with you.
	And I also want to point out to the crowd.
	Premature and I was ten and a half pounds.
	Life can change over a long enough time.
	Thank you for everything.
	Appreciate it.
	I'm gonna turn down the dance dance revolution while we take a selfie here a picture Yeah Oh, hold on.
	We're just going to have a camera like this.
	Awesome.
	Nice to meet you.
	Very nice meeting you.
	Thanks for all you're doing.
	You handle everything so well.
	You started, but you're making it.
	You're giving a voice for people.
	I see you.
	I got rid of all socials and everything.
	I literally just downloaded socials just so I can get a voice out here.
	I get three people watching one of my videos and then my freaking phone down.
	So you have more minute points.
	Keep her going, buddy.
	Thank you very much.
	Cheers.
	Now, so I see a dude with a clown wig, and another gentleman with a GoPro and a...
	Everyone's got a cannon out here.
	I don't know why no one has Nikons.
	You guys mind being on the webs?
	Oh, yeah, for sure.
	Okay, now, let me see this here.
	This says...
	Let me see if I can get this.
	Sorry, I didn't mean to pull on your jacket.
	Have a good day, guys.
	UBC Toronto 27. Yeah, local 27, Carpenter Genius.
	United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
	Okay, first of all, what is the United Brotherhood of Carpenters?
	Oh, it's just the Carpentry Union.
	Carpentry Union of America.
	So Local 27 is just the Toronto Union.
	Amazing.
	Okay, now where are you from?
	I'm from Markham originally, but I moved to Braysbridge about seven years ago.
	Markham is just outside of Toronto for anybody.
	And yeah, and Braysbridge is about two hours north of Toronto.
	Cottage country.
	And actually, I'm happy to see Viva here because I've been watching him like you guys are all watching right now.
	I've been watching him throughout the weeks and happy that he's sharing all this content.
	It's great.
	Thank you very much for what you're doing.
	So I'm just stoked that I was able to see you.
	Fantastic.
	How long have you been out here for?
	Yesterday.
	I was in a really low place.
	And it's good to hear I'm here for two reasons.
	I'm here to laugh at clown world.
	Huck!
	And I am here to lift my spirits with my fellow countrymen.
	God bless freedom.
	Fantastic.
	Gentlemen, when I get my thumb back in my piece, I'll give you a hug.
	Thank you so much for what you're doing.
	Where's the honk?
	Get over here.
	Can I get a shout out to my YouTube?
	Oh, absolutely, please.
	If you want to check me out, that's what I'm doing.
	I'm not doing as awesome as what he's doing.
	I'm Blem, B-L-E-M.
	If you type in Blem Surfing on YouTube, you'll find me.
	And the last video posted was about Dr. Alexander.
	So, yeah.
	Blem Surfing.
	B-L-E-M Surfing.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Have a good day.
	Sir, do you mind being on the interwebs?
	It's all right.
	You have the freedom frost in the beard like nobody's business today.
	What were you doing?
	You were skating on the Rideau Canal.
	I skated up here on the canal.
	I walked around to check it out.
	Heard some bagpipe music.
	You're from Ottawa?
	I'm from Ottawa.
	I'm originally from out west.
	But I started watching your...
	It's sort of live.
	I love it.
	There's a bit of a lag.
	There's a bit of a lag.
	First of all, you live in Ottawa.
	You've been reading what people have been saying about this, the radio, the news.
	What's the general sentiment among the Ottonians?
	Well, I think it's kind of mixed.
	I don't know whether people feel comfortable talking about it, but the days I've come down here, it's usually after I hear something on the news that's egregiously negative and ridiculous, and then I just have to come down and prove to myself that, no, it's fine.
	It's been quite peaceful.
	I suppose in certain neighbourhoods there's been disruptions and traffic and stuff.
	I think that is a legit old-school Maple Leafs hat.
	That is an antique of sorts?
	Well, it's probably about 15 years old.
	Maybe it's got the old insignia.
	When I first started watching hockey on TV, they won the cup.
	I was six years old at the time.
	I've been following you for a while.
	I really like your stuff, so keep it up, man.
	Thank you very much.
	Will do.
	Have a good one.
	Gentlemen!
	We saw a spontaneous kiss.
	Where are you in from?
	Well, Toronto, Vancouver, now in Ottawa until the job gets done.
	I'm going to go ahead and say that you have an Eastern European...
	Do I say Romanian?
	Russian.
	I was going to say, I tried to get smart.
	So, you were born in Russia?
	I was born in Soviet Union.
	Okay.
	So, I was born in 1980 in Soviet Union.
	I coach Vlad.
	I went to my first rally, May 2nd of 2020, in Queen's Park, Toronto.
	You know, being a concerned parent, my son just turned four years old at that time, and now I have a daughter as well.
	So, I do this for my own kids, but I do it for all the kids to ensure that they have a better future.
	And unfortunately, I say this often, that if I had a choice for my kids to grow up in Soviet Union like I did, or in Canada 22, I would actually choose Soviet Union.
	Because that's how real things are right now in terms of tyranny, child abuse, medical experimentation.
	We didn't have this in Soviet Union.
	You know, the life wasn't great, but not to this extent.
	When do you leave?
	By way of memory, so that people can assess your memory?
	Yeah, so I was born in 1980.
	Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
	I caught the last 11 years of Soviet Union.
	And obviously it wasn't as bad as the, you know, maybe a couple of decades before.
	But I was still lining up outside of the store to get into the store at eight years old.
	I had food coupons to buy food because the government actually told you how much food you allowed to buy.
	It didn't matter how much money you had.
	The government told you if you can't leave the country, you cannot leave the country, how much food you're going to buy, what else you're going to do with your life.
	But still, with all that context, like I said, if I had a choice for my kids to grow up right now in Canada, Soviet Union, unfortunately, I would choose Soviet Union.
	That's how bad things are.
	And it's not to make it, you know, dramatic for people just to understand the reality of severity of the situation that we're all in.
	And we are literally on a hill and we're holding a line for the future of the whole humanity.
	You know, not to make it super grand, but it is.
	You know, and I appreciate you doing what you've been doing, you know, exposing the BS in Quebec.
	It's unreal.
	Like, I could not believe that Quebecers took it, you know, the, what do you call this?
	Vaccine passport?
	No, no.
	For the six months.
	Oh, the curfew.
	The curfew.
	The curfew.
	Like, even in Iran, we didn't have a curfew.
	We don't have a curfew in North Korea, but Quebec had a curfew for six months.
	Insane.
	For a virus, by the way.
	Not for a war.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	Right?
	And then right now, I was listening to a Frankfurt conference.
	He said, like, you know, even if he tried to pass the...
	We're emergency act.
	It's still gonna take them a couple of weeks of debates and stuff like that.
	So it's our opportunity to keep up line of pressure and keeping keeping and make sure more people show up here.
	It's so so important.
	I mean last Saturday we had probably more people than the Saturday before but you know we have to have people here during the week so if you're able to come we have to make sure that if we try to push any funny business we're gonna do it during the week.
	So we need more people during the week.
	So guys if you're able to make it To Ottawa during the week, besides the weekend, please do what you can and support the truckers, support the freedom in this country.
	And we have to protect all kids and make Canada free again.
	Thank you, guys.
	Now, do you have anything, any website, any YouTube channel?
	What do you have?
	Yeah, so Hugs of a Mask was the original movement I started.
	The one we're pushing right now is weoessential.ca.
	That's the main one.
	And then I'm Free Canadian will be the empowerment for Canadians to be proud and patriotic of this country and making sure, like I said, we can be example for the whole humanity.
	And we are ready and it's beautiful.
	We're doing it the Canadian way.
	Peaceful Revolution, the Canadian way.
	We're doing it in the coldest month ever because that would be the Canadian way to do it.
	Right?
	Absolutely.
	Nice to see you, brother.
	Okay, Vlad.
	Coach Vlad on Instagram.
	Coach Vlad on Instagram.
	Coach Vlad.
	Thank you, brother.
	Nice to meet you.
	God bless you.
	Yeah, someone had asked if this weather is normal.
	It's cold.
	When I studied law in Quebec City, it was below minus 20 for like two weeks.
	And I remember there were people from countries.
	That did not have that type of cold, and their skin literally started swelling.
	Any exposed skin started swelling at the mere exposure to the air.
	So it's, um...
	My fingertips are getting real numb.
	Stop paying your taxes.
	Yeah, let's see how that goes.
	Okay, so what was the consensus on the vote, people?
	I'm going to have to listen to the news when I get back to the car.
	1245, 145, 12 to 1, 2, 3. 3:45 almost.
	Okay, we're gonna wind it up soon.
	I'm gonna go down to the Dance Dance Revolution convoy section.
	We got...
	We interviewed the trucker, Christian.
	Oh, it's windy and it's cold.
	Oh god!
	So apparently Brian Peckford, the last living signatory to the 1982 constitution, who is filing suit.
	Yeah, I'll take one of those.
	Would you hold?
	Could you hold this for one second?
	How you doing, Adam?
	Oh, give me one second.
	Okay, I'm gonna do this.
	No cooties on those, by the way.
	I don't even care about cooties.
	I'm done with cooties.
	We had COVID about a month and a half ago, so I'm good for a while.
	Thank you very much.
	We got Adam Nucci in the house.
	What's going on?
	How you doing?
	I'm good.
	We're streaming today.
	Well, we're crossing streams.
	That joke is never going to get old.
	Do you know what the news was?
	Apparently there was news about the vote on the hill.
	I don't know yet.
	It wasn't out yet when I came out.
	And we're both disconnected once we're streaming.
	How is the streaming going?
	Good.
	It's hard to compete with you out here.
	I'm signing off in a bit, so I'll divert everyone over.
	Your prediction was Monday.
	You were wrong.
	Well, hold on.
	The day's not over yet.
	We don't know what the vote was.
	Maybe the vote...
	See, I'm a lawyer, so I might argue effectively that this might have effectively ended today, but it's going to take two weeks for the end to come into effect.
	Do you think they stay for two weeks?
	Is there a convoy?
	They're going to be here.
	The convoy's going to stay for a little longer.
	So technically, I'll say metaphorically, it ended today.
	It's just going to take some time to be implemented.
	That's why nobody trusts lawyers, by the way.
	I'm going down this way to help.
	Adam Nucci, everybody knows him.
	Adam Nucci, N-U-C-C-I, like Gucci with an N. Look at what's going on here now.
	This barrier of signs is getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
	Oh, it's Viva.
	How you doing?
	Good, I've been watching you guys.
	Didn't find it too much yet today.
	We just got down to No, I've been going for three hours now.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm winding up and I gotta get back to for Valentine's Day.
	Yeah, okay, take care.
	Have a good one.
	Who do we got here?
	Oh.
	All right, so we got, look at all these beautiful signs on the barrier.
	Hello, doggie.
	Snub.
	Snub.
	So there's not very many people out, but this is beautiful.
	Victory over fear.
	It's not about a virus.
	It's about control.
	Thank you, truckers, for fighting for our freedom.
	We stand on guard for thee.
	We support the truckers.
	Stop.
	Unjustified measures.
	My five-year-old has depression from school closures.
	Let's put that on the effing news.
	My five-year-old has depression from school closures.
	Let's put that on the FKN news.
	Okay.
	Evil politics.
	Oh, I miss it.
	I'll have to hear the news when I get in the car.
	So Brian Peckford, last living signatory to the 1982 Constitution, gave a press conference about his lawsuit, I believe, so check that out.
	This is something you don't see every day.
	laughs
	Doing bench presses in minus...
	I don't know what the weather is now, but it's really quite cold.
	Minus 20, give or take.
	We've got the standard convoy blockade.
	How you doing?
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Here we go.
	Oh, so they do have port-- do you know if these are the city porta-potties, or were these brought in by the convoy?
	Not yet.
	All right.
	See, because last time I was here, they didn't have any, and I think the convoy brought these in.
	Yeah.
	Maybe.
	Yeah, probably.
	Let's go.
	Yep.
	Let's go.
	Brazo.
	That says Brazo Sanitation.
	613-487-3954.
	You know what?
	I have never in my life had to order an external porta potty, but I've never thrown a big party in an area that did not have toilets or did not have a forest.
	Okay.
	Okay, no, we're gonna back it up here.
	Okay, there seems to be...
	I'm just gonna walk through here.
	This is more convoys blocked off and gonna talk over the music because the music is gonna be a problem.
	They literally look for any reason to find a good excuse to stifle a stream.
	And this weaponizing copyrights...
	It's truly amazing.
	Back when the EUCD was coming out, the European Union copyright something, they were updating the copyright in Europe.
	And the thing that I had contemplated would be the biggest risk with what they were talking about doing for copyright was the idea of allowing people to weaponize copyright for political purposes.
	And so...
	Allowing people, allowing someone to acquire the copyright to a controversial video and then striking it off the internet if that individual didn't want people rebroadcasting that copyrighted material.
	And the idea of, like, it's not that far-fetched.
	You know, depending on who owns the rights to songs, weaponizing incidental use of copyright material for political suppression.
	I mean, it would have been a far-fetched idea, to me at least, two years ago.
	But I've seen how the world works now.
	Holy crab apples.
	Politicians stole this out, so I have to go see what happened.
	Vote failed.
	Jagmeet and Trudeau are WEF boys.
	Vote failed.
	So what does it mean, the vote failed?
	The vote on what?
	Invoking the Emergencies Act or ending the mandates?
	For those of you who know.
	The vote...
	So this is the question.
	Did the vote fail on invoking the Emergencies Act or on ending the mandates?
	No lifting mandates.
	No on mandates.
	No ending mandates.
	Alright, Trudeau on CBC now.
	Wow.
	Can you imagine?
	No lifting the mandates.
	My goodness.
	I'm gonna walk over here for a bit.
	So, 151 to 185 defeated to end mandates.
	Well, I mean, I guess the silver lining is at least as a pretty radical division or pretty clear split, almost 50 /50.
	But, uh...
	That's it.
	That's unbelievable.
	Let me just seethe with anger so that you don't see my face.
	Let me just seethe with anger.
	Thanks for getting all this footage and showing people what's really going on.
	Do you mind talking to the interwebs?
	Sure.
	Alright, so we're just getting news that apparently the vote to end the mandates has been defeated, 185 to 151.
	Where are you in from?
	Calgary, Alberta.
	How long have you been here for?
	Just got here today, drove four days.
	Really?
	Yeah, put the family and the pets in the van and nothing more important for us than to figure this stuff out here.
	Are you sleeping in the van or have you got places there?
	No, we got family.
	I'm from Ontario, so yeah, we got family around.
	What kind of dogs?
	Oh, it's an Alberta farm dog.
	So that means there's multiple types of dogs.
	No, I don't know anything about it.
	So you drove down four days and you're sitting here for how long?
	Oh, just a few days and the rest of the week probably.
	Head back on the weekend.
	And how has it been in terms of a family bonding experience?
	Four days!
	Four days in the car.
	How many kids do you have?
	Two kids.
	Two kids.
	How many dogs?
	A cat and a dog.
	That's amazing.
	First of all, that's dedication, people.
	Well, there's nothing more important.
	We're being crushed.
	Right?
	It's got to end.
	We've got to go back to the rule of law, back to following the Constitution, and stop coercing people into something they don't want to do.
	What's your first name?
	Murray.
	Murray?
	David.
	David, thanks.
	Nice to meet you, too.
	Pleasure.
	Enjoy, man.
	Yeah.
	Have a good one.
	You, too.
	Okay, so three hours.
	Got here at 12.45.
	So it's 3.45.
	All right, people.
	We're going to wind it up.
	Adam Nucci is live streaming, so you can go watch with Nucci.
	Autowalks, Zot, Zot, Mac John, M-A-K-J-O-N.
	If everybody tweets that out, I'm going to go ahead and tweet it also because that is some grade A bull plop.
	This is back to the War Memorial.
	Progress.
	Small progress.
	They took away the fence.
	And they was even...
	The protesters themselves...
	Oh, we've got the drummer who's back out, so maybe we'll end with a little drumming at the War Memorial.
	But if everyone can tweet out the Mac John bit at Team YouTube and have them look at it, because it's just...
	It's nonsense.
	And it's algorithmic, and then I do believe also even the manual review is algorithmic.
	Gentlemen.
	Do you want to end with some drumming?
	Okay, I'm going to just sit behind you and I'm going to stop talking.
	You want hand warmers?
	No, I'll be good.
	Thank you.
	Someone gave me them, but they're going to be useless in a bit.
	I'm honored.
	Expecting to see you in person and to watch you for a while.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you guys.
	Thank you.
	Good job.
	So, let's go.
	So, let's go.
	Thank you very much.
	Have a good night, man.
	Thank you.
	God bless you.
	God bless you, too.
	Thank you.
	All right, guys.
	Have a good one.
	So that is it.
	Another day.
	Going to go catch up on the news, and then we'll see where this goes.
	Thank you all, as always.
	Happy Valentine's Day to everyone.
	I hope no one out there forgot.
	I absolutely would have forgotten.
	I'm going to go see what my kid got.
	What she got for us.
	And then I'm going to totally pretend because I know that Marion is not watching now.
	I'm going to totally pretend that I remembered and that I got it because I'm a thoughtful husband.
	Everybody, really, thank you very much.
	Share, clip away.
	Get the word out.
	Come down if you can.
	Support it or don't support it, but come down and see it so that you know what you are or are not supporting.
	And in as much as it's possible, Try to sensitize people to what is going on without being a zealot.
	You cannot convince people who do not want to have their minds open.
	So you always have to approach other people with that in mind.
	And this is it.
	This is Ottawa.
	You can hear the honking in the distance.
	There is no bumper-to-bumper traffic.
	If this is a siege...
	If this is an occupation, it's the most peaceful one ever.
	Alright, peeps.
	Gonna end it.
	Thank you all.
	Hope you enjoyed this.
	And, uh...
	Oh!
	Tomorrow night, live with Barnes.
	So, Sunday night on a Tuesday night.
	It's gonna be good.
	I'm gonna go catch up on my American Law stuff.
	And, uh, vivabarneslaw.locals.com live tomorrow night, 7 o 'clock.
	And we have a sidebar this week as well.
	So, everything's back to normal as of Wednesday.
	And we'll...
	Maybe be back in Ottawa soon.
	Alright, guys.
	Have a good day.

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